how to pronounce catch

/kætʃ/

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catch is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… I'm the bogey man catch me if you can …”

meaning of catch

Catch means to take hold of something and hold it firmly.

catch frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word catch occurs in english on average 51.2 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 catch 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 catch can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;