Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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frequency

/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/ noun

Forms frequencies frequence

  1. noun (uncountable or countable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. “With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.”
  2. noun (uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently. “The FAQ addresses questions that come up with some frequency.”
  3. noun (countable) The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f=n/t. “The frequency of the musical note A above middle C is 440 oscillations per second.”
  4. noun A tone, character, mood, or vibe
  5. noun (statistics) number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
  6. noun (telecommunications) range of electromagnetic waves used for wireless communication in devices like radios, TVs and mobile phones

Synonyms

oftenness freq frequence relative frequency absolute frequency

Antonyms

period

Etymology

From Latin frequentia, from frequens. By surface analysis, frequent + -cy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
  2. noun A crowd; a throng. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Etymology [L. frequentia numerous attendance, multitude: cf. F. fréquence. See Frequent.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “frequency”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details