how to pronounce chess

/tʃɛs/

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chess is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… the Chess Club and I signed up to the …”

meanings of chess

noun:

Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

name:

A river in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, England, which joins the Colne at Rickmansworth.
A surname.

chess frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word chess occurs in english on average 7 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 chess 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 chess can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;