how to pronounce occur

/əˈkɜːɹ/

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occur is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… very few deaths occur with people who …”

meaning of occur

Occur means to happen or to take place.

occur frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word occur occurs in english on average 56.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;