how to pronounce pest

/ˈpɛst/

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pest is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… owls in the region for pest control is …”

meaning of pest

Pest is a type of insect that is harmful to plants or animals.

pest frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

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

1) life, nature, and living environment;