how to pronounce ointment

/ˈɔɪntmənt/

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ointment is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… consists of a tube of ointment a sub …”

meaning of ointment

Ointment is a medicinal cream or salve.

ointment frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word ointment 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 ointment 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 ointment can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;