how to pronounce siren

/ˈsaɪɹən/

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siren is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… quote siren call to the hustle economy …”

meaning of siren

A siren is a mythical creature that lures sailors to their death with its beautiful song.

siren frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word siren occurs in english on average 5 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 siren 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 siren can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) people, society, and culture;