how to pronounce whales

/ˈwɛɪlz/

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whales is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… to the save the whales mentality right …”

meanings of whales

noun:

Plural of whale.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whale.

whales frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word whales occurs in english on average 3.9 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 whales 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 whales can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;