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How to pronounce comfortable

CMUdict gives comfortable four syllables, KUM-fer-tuh-bul, with stress on the first, even though many speakers shorten it to three.

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

K AH1 M F ER0 T AH0 B AH0 L

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
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 comfortable in context

Comfortable is common in product descriptions, ads and casual narration. The CMU entry lists only the full four-syllable form, stressed on the first syllable. Natural speech often compresses it, so decide whether your script needs a careful or relaxed delivery.

Wear comfortable shoes for the walking tour.
The chair is comfortable enough for a long session.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ksound in keyconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Msound in meconsonant

Fsound in feeconsonant

ERsound in hurtvowel

Tsound in teaconsonant

Bsound in beconsonant

Lsound in leeconsonant

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How to pronounce comfortable

Word: comfortable
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: K AH1 M F ER0 T AH0 B AH0 L
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
Wear comfortable shoes for the walking tour.
The chair is comfortable enough for a long session.

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Practice note: Read it slowly once with all four syllables, then at your normal pace. Keep the fuller version for instructional audio and let it relax only when the tone is casual.

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Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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