how to pronounce blah

/blɑː/

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the above transcription of blah is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

blah is pronounced in one syllable

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ɑː

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

“… reasons that we mentioned blah blah blah …”

meaning of blah

Blah means a word that is used to express boredom, annoyance, or indifference.

blah frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word blah occurs in english on average 4.4 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 blah 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 blah can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;