how to pronounce contact

/ˈkɑːnˌtækt/

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contact is pronounced in two syllables

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ɑː

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

“… least partly come in contact with bodily …”

meaning of contact

Contact is the act of coming into contact with something.

contact frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word contact occurs in english on average 78.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics contact 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 contact can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;