how to pronounce facade

/fəˈsɑːd/

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facade is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… with a mock Turkish facade looking up at …”

meaning of facade

Facade is the front of a building.

facade frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word facade occurs in english on average 3 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 facade 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 facade can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;