how to pronounce tycoon

/taɪˈkuːn/

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tycoon is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… was built by an urban tycoon in 1900 …”

meaning of tycoon

A tycoon is a person who is very successful in business.

tycoon frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

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

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;