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How to pronounce assuage

Check assuage pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for assuage. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

AH0 S W EY1 JH

Syllable estimate: 2 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

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Syllable counts come from vowel tokens; CMUdict does not supply syllable boundaries here. Variant order follows the dictionary and does not rank correctness. This lexicon does not represent every accent or context.

Use assuage in context

Assuage means to ease a troubling feeling or reduce something uncomfortable. It is common in reflective prose and accounts of reassurance. A narrator should preserve the distinction between easing a concern and solving its cause, especially when the story describes uncertainty that remains after an intervention.

The detailed explanation helped assuage her concerns about the journey.
A warm meal did little to assuage his homesickness.

Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of assuage. Unstressed vowels may sound reduced. These cues follow the CMU phoneme-set key (Appendix A).

AHsound in hutvowel

Ssound in seaconsonant

Wsound in weconsonant

EYsound in atevowel

JHsound in geeconsonant

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How to pronounce assuage

Word: assuage
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: AH0 S W EY1 JH
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The detailed explanation helped assuage her concerns about the journey.
A warm meal did little to assuage his homesickness.

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Practice note: Test assuage with the feeling named in your sentence. Compare the full passage before and after any reassuring action, checking that the voice conveys a reduction in distress without implying a complete resolution your text does not claim.

CMUdict is a North American English lexicon, not a recording or a complete accent guide.
Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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