how to pronounce tragedy

/ˈtɹædʒ.ə.di/

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tragedy is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… what what was a tragedy for those people …”

meaning of tragedy

Tragedy is a literary genre that deals with the suffering of a group of people.

tragedy frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word tragedy occurs in english on average 18.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics tragedy 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 tragedy can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;