how to pronounce alarm

/əˈlɑːm/

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alarm is pronounced in two syllables

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əlɑːm

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

“… eaten sparingly to our alarm in the …”

meaning of alarm

Alarm is a device that is used to alert people to danger.

alarm frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word alarm occurs in english on average 23.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to alarm

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