how to pronounce chunk

/tʃʌŋk/

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chunk is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… shuffling quite a large chunk at the top …”

meaning of chunk

Chunk is a word that means a large piece of something.

chunk frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word chunk occurs in english on average 3 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 chunk 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 chunk can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;