how to pronounce ailment

/ˈɛɪl.mənt/

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ailment is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… diseases described as an ailment in …”

meanings of ailment

noun:

Something which ails one; a disease; sickness.

ailment frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word ailment occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;