how to pronounce fort

/fɔːt/

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fort is pronounced in one syllable

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ɔː

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

“… it's an enormous Iron Age hill fort and …”

meaning of fort

Fort is a military installation.

fort frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word fort occurs in english on average 10.7 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 fort 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 fort can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;