how to pronounce whiskey

/ˈwɪs.ki/

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the above transcription of whiskey 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.

whiskey is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… a wee dram of whiskey puts me in the …”

meaning of whiskey

Whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage.

whiskey frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word whiskey occurs in english on average 1.5 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 whiskey 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 whiskey can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;