how to pronounce gentle

/ˈdʒɛntəl/

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gentle is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… determined gentle s keys father a rat Co …”

meaning of gentle

Gentle means not rough or violent.

gentle frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word gentle occurs in english on average 26.7 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 gentle 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 gentle can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;