how to pronounce whale

/ˈwɛɪl/

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the above transcription of whale 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.

whale is pronounced in one syllable

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example pitch curve for pronunciation of whale

wɛɪl

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

“… let's go hug a whale fossil …”

meaning of whale

A whale is a large aquatic mammal.

whale frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word whale occurs in english on average 6.1 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 whale 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 whale can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to whale

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