how to pronounce dessert

/dɪˈzɜːt/

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dessert is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… masala's dessert or my dessert …”

meanings of dessert

noun:

A sweet confection served as the last course of a meal.

dessert frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word dessert occurs in english on average 3.1 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 dessert 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 dessert can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;