how to pronounce mosquito

/məsˈkiːtoʊ/

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mosquito is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… impact on human health our mosquito is …”

meanings of mosquito

noun:

The De Havilland Mosquito, a Second World War military aircraft.
Archaic form of Miskito.
A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

verb:

To fly close to the ground, seemingly without a course.

name:

A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

mosquito frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word mosquito occurs in english on average 2.1 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 mosquito 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 mosquito can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) transport and travel;