how to pronounce jealous

/ˈdʒɛləs/

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jealous is pronounced in two syllables

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dʒɛləs

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

“… can't show you and if you're jealous of …”

meaning of jealous

Jealous means feeling or showing a strong feeling of envy or resentment.

jealous frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word jealous occurs in english on average 13.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;

words that rhyme with jealous

trellisfellas

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