how to pronounce wire

/waɪɚ/

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wire is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… electric force from the wire but in my …”

meaning of wire

A wire is a thin piece of metal or other material used to transmit electricity or electronic signals.

wire frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word wire occurs in english on average 26.2 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 wire 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 wire can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;