how to pronounce sheriff

/ˈʃɛɹəf/

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sheriff is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it it was florida sheriff urges …”

meaning of sheriff

Sheriff is a law enforcement officer who is responsible for the law enforcement in a particular area.

sheriff frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word sheriff occurs in english on average 9.1 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 sheriff 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 sheriff can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;