how to pronounce furniture

/ˈfɜː.nɪ.tʃəɹ/

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the above transcription of furniture 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.

furniture is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… uh the furniture in the houses is turned …”

meaning of furniture

Furniture is the movable objects used to make a house, such as tables, chairs, cabinets, and so on.

furniture frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word furniture occurs in english on average 35.5 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 furniture 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 furniture can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;