how to pronounce ville

/vil/

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the above transcription of ville 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.

ville is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of ville in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… dans les rues de la ville on ne sait pas …”

meanings of ville

noun:

Town, city.

name:

New Orleans (a city in Louisiana, United States).

ville frequency in french - A1 level of CEFR

the word ville occurs in french on average 281.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.