how to pronounce poverty

/ˈpɒvəti/

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poverty is pronounced in three syllables

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pɒvəti

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

“… if people at poverty now and make people …”

meaning of poverty

Poverty is a state of deprivation of material resources.

poverty frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word poverty occurs in english on average 31.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

words with pronunciation similar to poverty

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