how to pronounce bassoon

/bəˈsun/

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bassoon is pronounced in two syllables

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

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meanings of bassoon

verb:

To make a bassoon-like sound.
To play the bassoon.

noun:

A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.

bassoon frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bassoon 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 bassoon 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 bassoon can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;