how to pronounce wolf

/wʊlf/

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wolf is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… I mean serious wolf and I've sort of …”

meaning of wolf

A wolf is a large, wild, carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis.

wolf frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word wolf occurs in english on average 8.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics wolf 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 wolf can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;