how to pronounce вышка

/ˈvɨʂkə/

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вышка is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of вышка in a speech by a native speaker of standard russian:

“… макалу в общем вышка это сама большой …”

meanings of вышка

noun:

Higher education (from высшее образование).
Capital punishment, death penalty (from высшая мера наказания, supreme measure of punishment).
Tower.
Higher mathematics, advanced maths (from высшая математика).
Control tower.

вышка frequency in russian - C2+ level of CEFR

the word вышка occurs in russian on average 0.9 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.