how to pronounce repay

/ɹɪˈpɛɪ/

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repay is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… there's no way you can repay him …”

meaning of repay

Repay means to give back in return for something received.

repay frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word repay occurs in english on average 6.1 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 repay 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 repay can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;