how to pronounce habitual

/həˈbɪtʃ.u.əl/

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habitual is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… because those become habitual actions …”

meanings of habitual

adjective:

Regular or usual.
Of a person or thing: engaging in some behaviour as a habit or regularly.
Pertaining to an action performed customarily, ordinarily, or usually.
Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.

noun:

A construction representing something done habitually.
One who does something habitually, such as a serial criminal offender.

habitual frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word habitual occurs in english on average 2.9 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 habitual 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 habitual can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to habitual

ritual

words that rhyme with habitual