how to pronounce wax

/ˈwæks/

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the above transcription of wax is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

wax is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… and he you know wax poetic about all the …”

meaning of wax

Wax is a type of material that is solid at room temperature and liquid at higher temperatures.

wax frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word wax occurs in english on average 12.9 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 wax 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 wax can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;