how to pronounce strife

/stɹaɪf/

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strife is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… was rocked by political strife seeing …”

meaning of strife

Strife is a state of conflict or disagreement.

strife frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word strife occurs in english on average 2.9 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 strife 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 strife can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;