how to pronounce dunce

/dʌns/

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dunce is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… bobo which roughly means dunce this …”

meanings of dunce

noun:

An unintelligent person.

dunce frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word dunce occurs in english on average 0.2 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 dunce 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 dunce can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;