how to pronounce bowie

/ˈboʊiː/

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the above transcription of bowie 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.

bowie is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… one of them is David Bowie because just …”

meaning of bowie

Bowie is a male name.

bowie frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bowie occurs in english on average 3.1 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 bowie 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 bowie can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;