how to pronounce frightened

/ˈfɹaɪtənd/

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frightened is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… should we become frightened no people …”

meanings of frightened

adjective:

Afraid; suffering from fear.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of frighten.

frightened frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word frightened occurs in english on average 7.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;