how to pronounce wharf

/wɔːf/

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wharf is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… on prince's wharf together with the …”

meanings of wharf

noun:

The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea.
A man-made landing place for ships on a shore or river bank.

verb:

To place on a wharf.
To secure by a wharf.

wharf frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word wharf occurs in english on average 3.4 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 wharf 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 wharf can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;