how to pronounce lights

/ˈlaɪts/

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lights is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… does not have stop lights any road that …”

meanings of lights

noun:

  1. The lungs, now chiefly of an animal (being lighter than adjacent parts).
  2. Plural of light.

verb:

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of light.

lights frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word lights occurs in english on average 49.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) life, nature, and living environment;

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