how to pronounce actual

/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/

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actual is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of actual in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… anyway back to the actual election as in …”

meaning of actual

Actual means real, genuine, not imagined or pretended.

actual frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word actual occurs in english on average 68.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;