how to pronounce shellfish

/ˈʃɛl.fɪʃ/

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shellfish is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… was no it was the shellfish run not even …”

meanings of shellfish

noun:

An aquatic invertebrate having a shell, such as a mollusc or crustacean, especially when edible.

shellfish frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word shellfish occurs in english on average 1.5 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 shellfish 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 shellfish can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;