how to pronounce typhoon

/taɪˈfuːn/

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the above transcription of typhoon 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.

typhoon is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… but by a typhoon that almost swept him …”

meaning of typhoon

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the western Pacific Ocean and in the Indian Ocean.

typhoon frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word typhoon occurs in english on average 0.6 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 typhoon 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 typhoon can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;