how to pronounce coax

/kəʊks/

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coax is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… through this coax cable here little …”

meaning of coax

Coax means to persuade someone to do something by using gentle, friendly persuasion.

coax frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word coax occurs in english on average 1.2 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 coax 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 coax can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;