To pronounce "level", say LEV-el — 2 syllables, IPA /ˈlɛv.əl/. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents, or practice it syllable by syllable.
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/ˈlɛv.əl/
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"level" has 2 syllables: lev-el. It rhymes with bedevil and daredevil, if that helps it stick.
noun
“Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.”
“By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.”
verb
“You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.”
“The hurricane leveled the forest.”
adjective
“This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?”
“We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.”
Practicing rhymes trains the same ending sounds.
"Level" has 2 syllables: lev · el.
The IPA transcription of "level" is /ˈlɛv.əl/.
Level: A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
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