how to pronounce milk

/mɪlk/

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the above transcription of milk 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.

milk is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… thousands of litres of milk per year so …”

meaning of milk

Milk is a liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

milk frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word milk occurs in english on average 48.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;