how to pronounce chernobyl

/tʃɚˈnoʊbəl/

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chernobyl is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… it's it's absurd to use Chernobyl as an …”

meanings of chernobyl

name:

An abandoned city in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear accident.

noun:

A major nuclear-energy accident.

chernobyl frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word chernobyl occurs in english on average 1.7 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.