how to pronounce steal

/stiːl/

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the above transcription of steal 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.

steal is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… nitrate rub your pork steal the bag make …”

meaning of steal

To steal something is to take it without the owner's permission.

steal frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word steal occurs in english on average 9.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics steal 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 steal can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;