how to pronounce guilty

/ˈɡɪltiː/

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guilty is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… punished if found guilty which many …”

meaning of guilty

Guilty means feeling or showing regret or remorse for a crime or offense.

guilty frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word guilty occurs in english on average 39.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;