how to pronounce pungency

/ˈpʌn.dʒən.si/

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pungency is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… of pungency on the scoville scale from …”

meanings of pungency

noun:

The state of being pungent.
A foul odor.

pungency frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word pungency occurs in english on average 0.3 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 pungency 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 pungency can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;