how to pronounce vaccine

/ˈvæk.siːn/

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vaccine is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… of his new anthrax vaccine at pulitzer 4 …”

meanings of vaccine

noun:

A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute.

vaccine frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word vaccine occurs in english on average 3.8 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.