how to pronounce frightening

/ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/

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frightening is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… to and Fred several frightening steps …”

meanings of frightening

adjective:

Causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary.
Awful, terrible, very bad.

verb:

Present participle of frighten.

frightening frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word frightening occurs in english on average 9 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 frightening 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 frightening can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;