how to pronounce barrio

/ˈbɑːɹiːoʊ/

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barrio is pronounced in three syllables

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ɑː

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iː

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

“… the barrio Venezuela where every man who …”

meanings of barrio

noun:

An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
A barangay.
A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.

name:

A surname.

barrio frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word barrio occurs in english on average 0.8 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 barrio 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 barrio can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;