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say it: fahyf
fife is a noun meaning "a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band". It is pronounced /ˈfaɪf/ — fahyf. It carries one recorded sense.
a small high-pitched flute similar to a piccolo; has a shrill tone and is used chiefly to accompany drums in a marching band
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fife come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.