how to pronounce illiteracy

/ˌɪˈlɪtɚəsiː/

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illiteracy is pronounced in five syllables

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

“… hunger poverty illiteracy and child …”

meanings of illiteracy

noun:

The portion of a population unable to read and write, generally given as a percentage.
Unlearnedness; the state of being ignorant or unlettered.
A word, phrase, or grammatical turn thought to be characteristic of an illiterate person.
The inability to read and write.

illiteracy frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word illiteracy occurs in english on average 0.4 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 illiteracy 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 illiteracy can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;