how to pronounce glockenspiel

/ˈɡlɑːkənˌspiːl/

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glockenspiel is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… been to the great glockenspiel of marion …”

meanings of glockenspiel

noun:

A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments; like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano, and is also smaller in size and higher in pitch.

glockenspiel frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word glockenspiel occurs in english on average 0.1 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 glockenspiel 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 glockenspiel can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;