how to pronounce shimmer

/ˈʃɪm.əɹ/

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shimmer is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… freshness and shimmer but he also …”

meanings of shimmer

noun:

A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining.
A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time.

verb:

To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly.

shimmer frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word shimmer occurs in english on average 0.8 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 shimmer 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 shimmer can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;