how to pronounce smith

/ˈsmɪθ/

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smith is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… with dr. Scott Smith and you are part of …”

meanings of smith

name:

A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
An unincorporated community in Galena Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States.
A small unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada.
An English surname (the most common in Britain, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand).
An unincorporated community in York County, South Carolina, also Smiths Turnout.
A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky.

noun:

One who makes anything; wright.
An artist.
A craftsperson who works metal into desired forms using a hammer and other tools, sometimes heating the metal to make it more workable, especially a blacksmith.

verb:

To forge, to form, usually on an anvil; by heating and pounding.

smith frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word smith occurs in english on average 44.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;