how to pronounce importance

/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/

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importance is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… is of the utmost importance the moment …”

meaning of importance

Importance means the quality of being important or significant.

importance frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word importance occurs in english on average 97.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;