how to pronounce louse

/laʊs/

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louse is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… wood louse so these are Thai red curry …”

meaning of louse

A louse is a type of parasitic insect that lives on the body of a host.

louse frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word louse 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 louse 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 louse can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;