how to pronounce fiasco

/fiˈæs.kəʊ/

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fiasco is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… this was a fiasco as opponent of emperor …”

meaning of fiasco

Fiasco means a complete failure.

fiasco frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word fiasco occurs in english on average 2.5 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 fiasco 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 fiasco can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;