how to pronounce affect

/əˈfɛkt/

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affect is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… age can affect the way that this sort of …”

meaning of affect

Affect means to influence or change.

affect frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word affect occurs in english on average 49.9 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 affect 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 affect can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to affect

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