how to pronounce therapy

/ˈθɛɹəpiː/

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therapy is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… whatever might be a therapy am I getting …”

meaning of therapy

Therapy is the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological methods.

therapy frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word therapy occurs in english on average 26.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) education, science, and technology;