how to pronounce unhealthy

/ənˈhɛlθiː/

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unhealthy is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… and unhealthy housing market and buyers …”

meanings of unhealthy

adjective:

Sick or ill.
Tending to corrupt.
Characterized by, or conducive to poor health.
Characterized by disturbed mental health.

unhealthy frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word unhealthy occurs in english on average 8 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 unhealthy 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 unhealthy can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;