how to pronounce banana

/bəˈnɑː.nə/

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banana is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… mango and banana avocado in pairs but …”

meaning of banana

A banana is a type of fruit.

banana frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word banana occurs in english on average 5.4 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 banana 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 banana can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) food and health;

3) life, nature, and living environment;