how to pronounce cancel

/ˈkæn.səl/

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cancel is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… Y and inverse Y cancel but they only …”

meaning of cancel

Cancel means to stop something from happening or to stop something from continuing.

cancel frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cancel occurs in english on average 8.9 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 cancel 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 cancel can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;