triphtong

In my dictionnary (a French dictionnary), at the word "triphtong"
(triphtongue) it says the normal stuff: a vowel that changes two times but
they give as example the english word "fire"

Does fire contain a triphong? probably something like /6i@/?

Before reading this, I thought that fire were /f6j@`/ and that English
didn't contain triphtongs

But it is a French dictionnary from France so I can't be sure about their
English knowledge

Might someone tell me?

Thanks


-Max

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