how to pronounce politely

/pəˈlaɪtliː/

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politely is pronounced in three syllables

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

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meanings of politely

adverb:

In a polite manner.

politely frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word politely occurs in english on average 6.6 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 politely 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 politely can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;