how to pronounce account

/əˈkaʊnt/

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account is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of account in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… most moving and timely account of the …”

meaning of account

Account means a record of transactions, a financial statement, or a list of transactions.

account frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word account occurs in english on average 72.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics account 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 account can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;