how to pronounce familiar

/fəˈmɪl.i.əɹ/

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familiar is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… went oh this feels familiar it was it …”

meaning of familiar

Familiar means known or well-known.

familiar frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word familiar occurs in english on average 57.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;