how to pronounce irony

/ˈaɪ.ɹə.ni/

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irony is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… do that as slight irony that five months …”

meaning of irony

Irony is a situation in which what is expected to happen, actually happens the opposite.

irony frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word irony occurs in english on average 9.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;