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# How to pronounce "spikier" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/spɪkɪɛr/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **spi·kier**
- **Parts of Speech**: adjective
- **ADJECTIVE**: comparative form of spiky /spikey: more spiky /spikey

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (10 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "spikier" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "time, whilst not wanting to, if you like, fan the flames of some of the uh spikier elements of the argument around flags, and as uh some might see it, the the case for placing flags in lots of the places they've been springing up in recent weeks, acknowledge the argument that others would be making listening to newscast or listening to Five Live of Hang on a minute, are at least some of"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 29:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yx8AsXVpo&t=1766s)

### Example 2
> "and obviously warmer for the UK than uh for the rest of Europe to some degree, although I think the general vibe in the interview was to try and perhaps make up for some of the spikier stuff he said over the past month or so. Uh it's clear that there's a deal to be done. what what deal actually what it the detail of what it entails really does matter because the the the phrase trade deal"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 14:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhU0m9lcG9A&t=884s)

### Example 3
> "But my avatar is a guy wearing chaps. Spiky hair -- spikier than this. Kind of orange hair. Handlebar mustache. Kind of a Village People sort of a character."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHXXsEtE3b4&t=1183s)

### Example 4
> "through the fictions of conventional morality and into life as it really is. He used humor as a social critique in plays that are spikier and more pointed than Wilde’s. His works—“Pygmalion,” “Man and Superman,” “Major Barbara,” and “Mrs. Warren’s Profession”—include debates and dialectics, a dance of ideas."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SzObknn8I&t=624s)

### Example 5
> "electric left is denser and more atmospheric right is spikier and"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 65:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNfwhaYXKEc&t=3926s)

### Example 6
> "AND they can even inflate themselves to appear larger and spikier, when a threat comes around."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 7:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ZapYLsAuc&t=442s)

### Example 7
> "fast hit uh much faster and you get a much spikier concentration profile"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7gpzOJv7Ps&t=1180s)

### Example 8
> "sort of 19 late 90s early 2000s you would be a little bit more testy with some be a bit spikier and I think that was the mood of the time that uh you"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qctZqzar-Qg&t=482s)

### Example 9
> "they might be a little bit more spiky and wild because most of the wild grown chokos are the spikier variety, but the commercially grown ones"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUH02T9aLWc&t=171s)

### Example 10
> "In this case, researchers investigated two members of the Myrmoteras genus, which have longer and spikier mandibles than other trap-jaw ants."
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkELX6tpyeY&t=211s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [spacier](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/spacier), [spackier](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/spackier), [sparkier](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/sparkier)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "spikier" correctly?
"spikier" is pronounced `/spɪkɪɛr/`. Syllable breakdown: **spi·kier**.

### What does "spikier" mean in context?
comparative form of spiky /spikey: more spiky /spikey

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