how to pronounce bacon

/ˈbɛɪ.kən/

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bacon is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… then five pounds of bacon the day after …”

meaning of bacon

Bacon is a type of meat that is usually fried and eaten for breakfast.

bacon frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word bacon occurs in english on average 14.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) food and health;