--- title: "How to pronounce \"whr\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"whr\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/OVMsoDBO1jA/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whr" --- # How to pronounce "whr" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/wr/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **whr** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Initialism of waist-hip ratio. - *Example*: "Women described as the most attractive in studies had a WHR of 0.7, and women with 0.7 WHR were found to conceive more easily." - Initialism of waist-height ratio. ### Example Sentences - "Women described as the most attractive in studies had a WHR of 0.7, and women with 0.7 WHR were found to conceive more easily." - "whr end of angural and Po and" - "wrh whro public media in Virginia has been following the story we know the six-year-old child is in custody we also know that the teacher is" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "whr" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: US* > "been slow to appreciate him but that reproach if it ever is warranted certainly is untrue whr end of angural and Po and appreciation section two of The Works of Edgar alen Poe Raven Edition volume 1" - **Watch at 17:02**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVMsoDBO1jA&t=1022s) ### Example 2 > "30s suffered serious injuries in an altercation at richneck elementary school in the City of Newport News Michelle Hankerson the news director at wrh whro public media in Virginia has been following the story we know the six-year-old child is in custody we also know that the teacher is has life-threatening injuries that they are being treated for that but nothing" - **Watch at 0:14**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhvfCczI8s&t=14s) ### Example 3 *Accent: US* > "network is whro is a station in norfol uh Newport" - **Watch at 50:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=070eGDw8LMQ&t=3031s) ### Example 4 *Accent: US* > "and uh there is a if you're familiar with uh the WHR bill then uh there is uh" - **Watch at 56:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX3zhZ6ETWI&t=3404s) ### Example 5 > "manufacturing and to the retail companies the biggest clients are car medical and Telecom manufacturers for a telecom company Telecom is no more core customer customer is more core customer relationship is more core they can Outsource everything else whro won't disclose the identities of its clients Executives were reluctant to say whether the Toyota recall and US authorities looking into EI would encourage other companies to hire Wipro now they will be" - **Watch at 1:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kezkCBNlmXk&t=87s) ### Example 6 > "manufacturing and to the retail companies the biggest clients are car medical and Telecom manufacturers for a telecom company Telecom is no more core customer customer is more core customer relationship is more core they can Outsource everything else whro won't disclose the identities of its clients Executives were reluctant to say whether the Toyota recall and US authorities looking into EI would encourage other companies to hire whro now they will be" - **Watch at 1:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8bcSQKKTPg&t=87s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "got lawyers they've got accountants um you go to India and you walk into whro emphasis offices and you swear you're here in Silicon" - **Watch at 2:22**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RP1sS8rMsQ&t=142s) ### Example 8 > "most prec precise anti-terrorist action in history I think it was just incredible and then I I see real hope here I think after the war is over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia I think will normalize relations but I would argue all the death and destruction of the whr on both sides I don't want to say it's never worth it for the people who incur that type of Destruction I actually am hopeful I think there's going to be a more sustainable peace in the Middle" - **Watch at 91:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwyi6Zdeo8&t=5497s) ### Example 9 > "world citizens is that the case well the case is uh is is an important one Ebola is a global epidemic where it's out of control and we were asked by the world community Twitter whr dr. Margaret Chan to provide the response to that as an industry having vaccines and so that we were asked to significantly accelerate because the disease is out of control and since we have the capability the" - **Watch at 0:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiquem9aDro&t=52s) ### Example 10 > "company around this let's create a company around these activities actually we're not that great at doing these These are good activities we took some of those and we actually sold them to other people or we passed on those activities so we sold some to whro to Tata consultancies Etc companies of that sort who took uh big areas of what we did and took them with them and uh and" - **Watch at 33:54**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-g3zzxZBBI&t=2034s) ## How to Pronounce "whr" - **Syllables**: whr - **IPA**: `/wr/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [wha](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wha), [whar](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whar), [whad](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whad), [whah](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whah), [wham](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wham), [whap](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whap), [whare](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/whare), [wharf](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wharf) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “whr”? “whr” is pronounced /wr/ (whr). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “whr” mean? Initialism of waist-hip ratio. ### How can I hear “whr” used in real sentences? This page has 14 real-world video examples of “whr” with synchronized subtitles. 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