how to pronounce emergency

/ɪˈmɜː.dʒən.si/

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the above transcription of emergency 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.

emergency is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… a call to the Dutch emergency number 1 1 …”

meaning of emergency

Emergency means a sudden and unexpected event that requires immediate action.

emergency frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word emergency occurs in english on average 39.8 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 emergency 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 emergency can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;