how to pronounce bailiwick

/ˈbɛɪlɪˌwɪk/

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bailiwick is pronounced in three syllables

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bɛɪlɪwɪk

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An example use of bailiwick in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… really the bailiwick of our faculty and …”

meanings of bailiwick

noun:

  1. The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
  2. A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.

bailiwick frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word bailiwick occurs in english on average 0 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 bailiwick 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 bailiwick can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to bailiwick

bailiffbasicbailing

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