how to pronounce adult

/ˈæd.ʌlt/

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adult is pronounced in two syllables

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example pitch curve for pronunciation of adult

ædʌlt

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video examples of adult pronunciation

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

“… it's awful as an adult but when it's …”

meaning of adult

Adult means a person who has reached the age of majority.

adult frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word adult occurs in english on average 50.8 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 adult 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 adult can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to adult

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