how to pronounce limerick

/ˈlɪmɚɪk/

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limerick is pronounced in three syllables

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

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meanings of limerick

name:

A county of Ireland.
A city in County Limerick.

noun:

A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having a 9-9-6-6-9 cadence.

limerick frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word limerick occurs in english on average 1.2 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 limerick 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 limerick can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;