how to pronounce bookworm

/ˈbʊk.wɜːm/

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bookworm is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… was just a complete bookworm and I …”

meaning of bookworm

A bookworm is a type of insect that eats books.

bookworm frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bookworm occurs in english on average 0.1 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 bookworm 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 bookworm can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;