how to pronounce swallow

/ˈswɒl.əʊ/

audio example by a male speaker

audio example by a female speaker

the above transcription of swallow 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.

swallow is pronounced in two syllables

press buttons with phonetic symbols to learn how to precisely pronounce each sound of swallow

1.

2. example pitch curve for pronunciation of swallow

test your pronunciation of swallow

press the "test" button to check how closely you can replicate the pitch of a native speaker in your pronunciation of swallow

video examples of swallow pronunciation

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

“… this videos do not try and swallow the …”

meaning of swallow

Swallow means to take in food or liquid by the mouth and then to expel it again.

swallow frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word swallow occurs in english on average 8.2 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.

topics swallow 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 swallow can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) people, society, and culture;