how to pronounce peculiar

/pɪˈkjuː.li.əɹ/

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peculiar is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… is peculiar that people know who their …”

meaning of peculiar

Peculiar means strange, unusual, or not easily explained.

peculiar frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word peculiar occurs in english on average 14.4 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 peculiar 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 peculiar can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;