how to pronounce wife

/ˈwaɪf/

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the above transcription of wife 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.

wife is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… i was a part of my wife and i were part …”

meaning of wife

Wife is a female name.

wife frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word wife occurs in english on average 133.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) life, nature, and living environment;