how to pronounce cloy

/klɔɪ/

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cloy is pronounced in one syllable

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meanings of cloy

verb:

To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate.
To fill to loathing; to surfeit.

cloy frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word cloy occurs in english on average 0 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 cloy 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 cloy can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;