how to pronounce bicycle

/ˈbaɪ.sɪ.kəl/

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bicycle is pronounced in three syllables

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video examples of bicycle pronunciation

An example use of bicycle in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… on a sort of bicycle like apparatus and …”

meaning of bicycle

A bicycle is a two-wheeled vehicle that has a frame with two wheels attached to the frame by a single crank arm.

bicycle frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word bicycle occurs in english on average 8.6 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 bicycle 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 bicycle can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;