how to pronounce eerie

/ˈɪɹiː/

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eerie is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it's eerie and it's real the hardest …”

meaning of eerie

Eerie means causing a feeling of fear or dread.

eerie frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word eerie occurs in english on average 5.1 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 eerie 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 eerie can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;