how to pronounce onion

/ˈʌnjən/

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onion is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… read it in the onion its satire it's not …”

meaning of onion

Onion is a vegetable.

onion frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word onion occurs in english on average 34.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) food and health;