how to pronounce bacterium

/bəkˈtɪɹiːəm/

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bacterium is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… virus that took over the bacterium and …”

meanings of bacterium

noun:

A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.

bacterium frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bacterium occurs in english on average 0.3 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 bacterium 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 bacterium can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;