how to pronounce unique

/juːˈniːk/

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the above transcription of unique 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.

unique is pronounced in two syllables

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1.

uː

2.

iː

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

“… this is quite a unique set of numbers …”

meaning of unique

Unique means one of a kind, not repeated.

unique frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word unique occurs in english on average 43.5 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 unique 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 unique can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;