how to pronounce crook

/kɹʊk/

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crook is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… he seems to have thought that crook was …”

meaning of crook

Crook is a verb meaning to bend or curve in a certain way.

crook frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word crook occurs in english on average 3.8 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 crook 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 crook can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;