how to pronounce held

/ˈhɛld/

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held is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… building's first the LMDC held a …”

meanings of held

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of hold.

held frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word held occurs in english on average 123 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;