how to pronounce hood

/hʊd/

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hood is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… bonnet or hood depending on where you …”

meaning of hood

The hood is a piece of cloth that is worn around the head and over the face.

hood frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word hood occurs in english on average 9.8 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 hood 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 hood can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;