how to pronounce peculiar
/pəkˈjuljɚ/
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peculiar is pronounced in three syllables
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An example use of peculiar in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… which brings up a peculiar aspect of the …”
meaning of peculiar
Peculiar means strange, unusual, or not easily explained.
peculiar frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR
the word peculiar occurs in english on average 7.6 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 peculiar 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 peculiar can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;
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