how to pronounce divorce

/dɪˈvɔːs/

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the above transcription of divorce is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

divorce is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… as part of the divorce bill the swedish …”

meaning of divorce

Divorce is the legal dissolution of a marriage.

divorce frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word divorce occurs in english on average 20.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;