How do you pronounce smaller?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsmɔ.lɚ/.

smaller

/ˈsmɔ.lɚ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.80 in modern English

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"The worse things get, the smaller your focus should be."
"At the partition of Ireland in 1920, the railway mileage of the whole country stood at its maximum figure of 3,442, of which 2,668 miles were in the South, and 754 in the much smaller North."

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