how to pronounce tournament

/ˈtʊɹnəmənt/

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tournament is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… people entered the tournament and 127 …”

meaning of tournament

A tournament is a competition in which a number of people or teams compete against each other.

tournament frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word tournament occurs in english on average 11.2 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 tournament 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 tournament can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;