how to pronounce irritate

/ˈɪɹətɛɪt/

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irritate is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… that's probably going to irritate it so …”

meaning of irritate

Irritate means to annoy or make someone angry.

irritate frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word irritate occurs in english on average 0.9 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 irritate 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 irritate can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;