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How to pronounce cacophony

Check cacophony 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 cacophony. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

K AE0 K AA1 F AH0 N IY0

Syllable estimate: 4 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 cacophony in context

Cacophony describes a mixture of harsh or discordant sounds. Scene narration can use it to convey a busy street, a chaotic rehearsal, or an overwhelming room. Specific sounds help the listener imagine the experience, while pacing and delivery determine whether the description feels energetic, comic, or distressing.

A cacophony of horns rose from the intersection.
The rehearsal dissolved into a cacophony of competing rhythms.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ksound in keyconsonant

AEsound in atvowel

AAsound in oddvowel

Fsound in feeconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

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How to pronounce cacophony

Word: cacophony
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: K AE0 K AA1 F AH0 N IY0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
A cacophony of horns rose from the intersection.
The rehearsal dissolved into a cacophony of competing rhythms.

REVIEW CHECKLIST
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Practice note: Audition cacophony with the sound list that follows it. Compare a brisk reading with a slower descriptive one, and keep individual sounds intelligible; performing confusion too aggressively can make the narration itself difficult to follow.

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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Reference: https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/cacophony

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