how to pronounce q

/ˈkju/

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q is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of q pronunciation

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

“… i'll be doing a live q a for our video …”

meanings of q

noun:

Question.
Queen.
Quarter.
Quasar.
Quality factor.
Qualified.
Conditional qualification.
Alternative letter-case form of q (“every").
Question or questions.
American Library Association Abbreviation of quarto (“book size").

name:

QAnon (anonymous poster on 4chan).
The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle, source); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document).
The pseudonym of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Quran.

character:

The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

numeral:

The ordinal number seventeenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

determinative:

Each, every (with a time interval).

q frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word q occurs in english on average 20.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;