Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

daegu

/dæˈɡu/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.48 in modern English

Syllables: daegu
IPA: /dæˈɡu/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city in South Korea.

Example Sentences

"Of the 599 new cases in South Korea announced on Monday, 377 were from the country's fourth largest city, Daegu, home to a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, to which the majority of the country's cases have been traced after some its members visited China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the disease. More than half of South Korea's 4,000 cases have been linked to Shincheonji."
"In a densely populated but otherwise quiet district in Daegu, a city in southeastern South Korea, a highly emotional standoff is underway."

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 대구(大邱) (Daegu, literally “great hill”).

Origin

Source language: Korean

Word Breakdown

Root: ^대구(大邱)

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dæˈɡu/
British English: /daˈɡuː/

Inflected Forms

Taegu (alternative)

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce daegu?: The recorded pronunciation is /dæˈɡu/.
What does daegu mean?: A city in South Korea.
Where does daegu come from?: It is traced to Korean.

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