how to pronounce excavator

/ˈɛk.skə.vɛɪ.təɹ/

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excavator is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… an excavator to remove all the sand to a …”

meanings of excavator

noun:

A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc; a backhoe; digger.
A person who excavates.

excavator frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word excavator occurs in english on average 0.5 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 excavator 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 excavator can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;

3) transport and travel;

words with pronunciation similar to excavator

escalator

excavate