how to pronounce surreal

/sɚˈiːl/

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surreal is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it is a little surreal a lot of people …”

meanings of surreal

adjective:

Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.

noun:

Surreal number.

surreal frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word surreal occurs in english on average 8.7 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 surreal 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 surreal can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;