how to pronounce plastic

/ˈplæs.tɪk/

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plastic is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it could be in plastic and I know people …”

meaning of plastic

Plastic is a type of material that is made from polymers of various types of organic molecules.

plastic frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word plastic occurs in english on average 40.5 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 plastic 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 plastic can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;