how to pronounce quiet

/ˈkwaɪ.ət/

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quiet is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… side and have a quiet word with him and …”

meaning of quiet

Quiet means not making a lot of noise.

quiet frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word quiet occurs in english on average 64.2 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 quiet 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 quiet can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;