how to pronounce streak

/stɹiːk/

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streak is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… this is his violent streak very much …”

meanings of streak

noun:

A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
A rung or round of a ladder.
A continuous series of like events.
An irregular line left from smearing or motion.
The act of streaking, or running naked through a public area.
A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
The color of the powder of a mineral. So called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
A strake.

verb:

To run naked in public. (Contrast flash).
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
To move very swiftly.
To have or obtain streaks.
To create streaks.

streak frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word streak occurs in english on average 4.4 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 streak 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 streak can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;