how to pronounce spare

/ˈspɛɹ/

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spare is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… the family if they'd spare our lives we …”

meaning of spare

Spare means to give up something that is not needed or wanted.

spare frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word spare occurs in english on average 24.2 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 spare 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 spare can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;