how to pronounce schist

/ʃɪst/

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schist is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… canyon is vishnu schist that was …”

meanings of schist

noun:

Any of a variety of coarse-grained crystalline metamorphic rocks with a foliated structure that allows easy division into slabs or slates.

schist frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word schist occurs in english on average 0.2 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 schist 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 schist can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;