how to pronounce die

/daɪ/

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die is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… and so bleach and die so large parks the …”

meaning of die

Die means to stop living.

die frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word die occurs in english on average 55.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics die 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 die can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) people, society, and culture;