how to pronounce bayou

/ˈbaɪ.uː/

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bayou is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of bayou in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… the Louisiana bayou had grown used to …”

meaning of bayou

Bayou is a swampy area in the southern United States.

bayou frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bayou occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bayou can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that bayou can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;