how to pronounce had

/ˈhæd/

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had is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… have a family and I had a 10-year career …”

meanings of had

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of have.
Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
As past subjunctive: would have.

adjective:

Available.
Duped.

had frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word had occurs in english on average 2806 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;