how to pronounce soot

/sʊt/

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the above transcription of soot 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.

soot is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… with soot with black ashes all over …”

meaning of soot

Soot is a black, powdery residue that is produced when something is burned.

soot frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word soot occurs in english on average 2 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 soot 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 soot can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;