how to pronounce mills

/ˈmɪlz/

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mills is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of mills in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… medical regulatory era Mills are in the …”

meanings of mills

name:

An unincorporated community in Utah.
An unincorporated community in New Mexico; named for rancher and politician Melvin Whitson Mills.
An unincorporated community in Kentucky; named for postmaster Isaac Mills.
An unincorporated community in Nebraska; named for a local gristmill.
An English and Scottish occupational surname for mill owners and workers.
A town in Wyoming.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
An Irish habitational surname, an anglicization of an Mhuilinn (“of the mill").
A locale in the United States.

noun:

Plural of mill.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mill.

mills frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word mills occurs in english on average 6.5 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 mills 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 mills can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;