How do you pronounce slums?

The recorded pronunciation is /slʌmz/.

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

slums

/slʌmz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English

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comes becomes drums sums thumbs mums crumbs gums bums plums chums hums

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