how to pronounce drill

/dɹɪl/

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the above transcription of drill 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.

drill is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… gonna drill into today it's a KPI number …”

meaning of drill

Drill is a tool used to make a hole in a material.

drill frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word drill occurs in english on average 10.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;