how to pronounce accrue

/əkˈɹu/

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accrue is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… stock market accrue to a tiny sliver of …”

meanings of accrue

verb:

  1. To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  2. To become an enforceable and permanent right.
  3. To accumulate.
  4. To increase, to rise.
  5. To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.

noun:

  1. Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

accrue frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word accrue occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to accrue

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