how to pronounce flea

/fliː/

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flea is pronounced in one syllable

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iː

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

“… the operator of this flea market located …”

meaning of flea

A flea is a small insect that jumps on and feeds on the blood of mammals, including humans.

flea frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word flea occurs in english on average 6.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics flea 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 flea can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;