how to pronounce skim

/skɪm/

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skim is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… who managed to skim along for some 50 …”

meaning of skim

Skim means to move quickly over the surface of something.

skim frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

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

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to skim

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