how to pronounce sandalwood

/ˈsæn.dəl.wʊd/

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sandalwood is pronounced in three syllables

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sændəlwʊd

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

“… lesurfr my honorary oil sandalwood oil …”

meanings of sandalwood

noun:

  1. The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes.
  2. Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.

name:

  1. The Kannada film industry located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

sandalwood frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sandalwood occurs in english on average 0.6 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 sandalwood 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 sandalwood can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

words with pronunciation similar to sandalwood

sandal

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