how to pronounce coast

/kəʊst/

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the above transcription of coast 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.

coast is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… more men on the coast to ease the burden …”

meaning of coast

Coast is the shoreline of a body of water.

coast frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word coast occurs in english on average 47 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 coast 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 coast can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) transport and travel;