how to pronounce pigs

/ˈpɪɡz/

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pigs is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… I'd be like having 20,000 dead pigs come …”

meanings of pigs

noun:

Phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis, class S, a human gene.
Plural of pig.
Plural of PIG.

name:

(economics, widely considered derogatory).
Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, countries of Southern Europe noted for similar economic environments.
Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain, four countries that were unable to refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks on their own.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pig.

pigs frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

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

1) education, science, and technology;