how to pronounce whereas

/wɛəɹˈæz/

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the above transcription of whereas 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.

whereas is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… the following five years whereas we have …”

meaning of whereas

Whereas means in contrast to.

whereas frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word whereas occurs in english on average 62.4 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 whereas 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 whereas can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;