how to pronounce fife

/faɪf/

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fife is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… and they picked up north east fife and …”

meaning of fife

A fife is a type of woodwind instrument.

fife frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word fife occurs in english on average 4.1 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 fife 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 fife can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;