how to pronounce plum

/plʌm/

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plum is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… and patiently stirs his heated plum mash …”

meaning of plum

Plum is a type of fruit.

plum frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word plum occurs in english on average 2.9 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 plum 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 plum can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;