how to pronounce whew

/fhjuː/

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the above transcription of whew 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.

whew is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… the hotels go whew sure are you sure you …”

meaning of whew

Whew means a sigh of relief.

whew frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word whew occurs in english on average 0.2 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 whew 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 whew can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;