how to pronounce womb

/wuːm/

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womb is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… survive outside the womb today things …”

meanings of womb

noun:

In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
The stomach of a person or creature.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
A place where something is made or formed.
The abdomen or stomach.

verb:

To enclose in a womb, or as if in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.

womb frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word womb occurs in english on average 3.9 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 womb 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 womb can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;