how to pronounce phylum

/ˈfaɪ.ləm/

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phylum is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… kingdom phylum class order family genus …”

meaning of phylum

Phylum is a category of biological classification that ranks taxa according to their level of organization.

phylum frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word phylum occurs in english on average 0.5 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 phylum 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 phylum can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;