how to pronounce shelter

/ˈʃɛl.təɹ/

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shelter is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… needed as a bomb shelter 2,000 people …”

meaning of shelter

Shelter is a place of safety from the weather or from danger.

shelter frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word shelter occurs in english on average 15.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.