how to pronounce sleepwalk

/ˈsliːpˌwɔːk/

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sleepwalk is pronounced in two syllables

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slpwɔːk

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

“… she begins to sleepwalk miming washing …”

meanings of sleepwalk

verb:

  1. To walk and/or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.

sleepwalk frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sleepwalk occurs in english on average 0.1 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 sleepwalk 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 sleepwalk can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

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