how to pronounce professor

/pɹəˈfɛsɚ/

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the above transcription of professor is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

professor is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… what your professor that teaches what uh …”

meaning of professor

Professor is a title given to a teacher who is an expert in a particular field.

professor frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word professor occurs in english on average 38 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) education, science, and technology;