how to pronounce commence

/kəˈmɛns/

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the above transcription of commence is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

commence is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… we commence the last battle the Dirty …”

meaning of commence

To begin.

commence frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word commence occurs in english on average 2.4 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 commence 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 commence can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;