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How to pronounce brooch

Brooch has two CMUdict forms, BROOCH (B R UW1 CH) and BROHCH (B R OW1 CH); the second rhymes with "coach".

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

B R UW1 CH

Syllable estimate: 1 vowel nucleus
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

B R OW1 CH

Syllable estimate: 1 vowel nucleus
Primary stress: 1st 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 brooch in context

Brooch appears in jewelry listings, period dramas and auction catalogs. The oo spelling makes BROOCH the easy guess, and the dictionary lists it first. Order does not mean preference here, and many US dictionaries put the coach rhyme first.

She pinned an antique brooch to her coat.
The brooch sold at auction for twice its estimate.

Read the sound tokens

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

Bsound in beconsonant

Rsound in readconsonant

UWsound in twovowel

CHsound in cheeseconsonant

OWsound in oatvowel

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How to pronounce brooch

Word: brooch
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: B R UW1 CH
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 1
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
She pinned an antique brooch to her coat.
The brooch sold at auction for twice its estimate.

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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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