how to pronounce incident

/ˈɪnsədənt/

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incident is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… what makes the chelyabinsk incident kind …”

meaning of incident

An incident is an event that happens unexpectedly.

incident frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word incident occurs in english on average 27.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;