how to pronounce prairie

/ˈpɹɛɹiː/

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prairie is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… Little House on the Prairie it makes so …”

meanings of prairie

noun:

An extensive area of relatively flat grassland with few, if any, trees, especially in North America.

name:

Alternative form of Prairies.

prairie frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word prairie occurs in english on average 4.6 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 prairie 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 prairie can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;