how to pronounce incarceration

/ˌɪnˌkɑːɹsɚˈɛɪʃən/

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incarceration is pronounced in five syllables

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

“… mass incarceration it's somehow funny …”

meanings of incarceration

noun:

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
Strangulation, as in hernia.
A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

incarceration frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word incarceration occurs in english on average 2.2 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 incarceration 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 incarceration can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;