how to pronounce distress

/dɪsˈtɹɛs/

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distress is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… who's in crisis or in distress to reach …”

meaning of distress

Distress means to cause great pain or worry.

distress frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word distress occurs in english on average 24.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;