how to pronounce sick

/sɪk/

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the above transcription of sick is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

sick is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of sick pronunciation

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

“… and were they sick of this did you think …”

meaning of sick

Sick means feeling unwell or having a disease.

sick frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word sick occurs in english on average 45.2 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 sick 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 sick can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to sick

sillsingsticksereticksyncsievepickhickseek

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