how to pronounce debt

/ˈdɛt/

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debt is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… in the best case a debt deal eight and a …”

meaning of debt

Debt is a loan that must be repaid with interest.

debt frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word debt occurs in english on average 40 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;