how to pronounce bulb

/bʌlb/

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the above transcription of bulb 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.

bulb is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… Kepler felt a light bulb go ping right …”

meaning of bulb

A bulb is a plant stem that produces a flower or leaves at the end.

bulb frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bulb occurs in english on average 4.5 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 bulb 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 bulb can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;