how to pronounce lair

/lɛəɹ/

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lair is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it appears in the lair t for the first …”

meaning of lair

Lair is a place where animals live.

lair frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word lair occurs in english on average 1.2 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 lair 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 lair can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;