how to pronounce creek

/kɹiːk/

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the above transcription of creek 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.

creek is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… really up the creek without a paddle …”

meaning of creek

A creek is a small stream that flows into a larger body of water.

creek frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word creek occurs in english on average 3.2 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 creek 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 creek can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;