how to pronounce calamity

/kəˈlæm.ə.ti/

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calamity is pronounced in four syllables

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video examples of calamity pronunciation

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

“… but it's just one calamity after another …”

meaning of calamity

Calamity means a disaster or misfortune.

calamity frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word calamity occurs in english on average 1.1 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 calamity 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 calamity can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;