how to pronounce junkie

/ˈdʒʌŋ.ki/

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junkie is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… might easily be a vegetarian junkie so I …”

meaning of junkie

A junkie is someone who is addicted to drugs.

junkie frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word junkie occurs in english on average 0.8 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 junkie 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 junkie can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) people, society, and culture;