how to pronounce whelk

/wɛlk/

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whelk is pronounced in one syllable

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meanings of whelk

noun:

Pimple.
A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.

whelk frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word whelk occurs in english on average 0.2 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 whelk 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 whelk can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;