how to pronounce theft

/ˈθɛft/

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theft is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… with waste fraud and theft of public …”

meaning of theft

Theft is the act of stealing something without the owner's permission.

theft frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word theft occurs in english on average 9.7 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 theft 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 theft can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;