how to pronounce boat

/bəʊt/

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boat is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… take a ride on a boat round the bay or …”

meaning of boat

A boat is a watercraft with a hull and a deck.

boat frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word boat occurs in english on average 54.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics boat 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 boat can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;