how to pronounce movie

/ˈmuviː/

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the above transcription of movie 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.

movie is pronounced in two syllables

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video examples of movie pronunciation

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

“… so helen back to the movie so you uh the …”

meaning of movie

A movie is a form of entertainment with a story that is told through images.

movie frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word movie occurs in english on average 229.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) leisure and entertainment;