how to pronounce swell

/swɛl/

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swell is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… him is just a rumor swell saying there's …”

meaning of swell

Swell means to be very good or impressive.

swell frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word swell occurs in english on average 5.9 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 swell 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 swell can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;