PRONUNCIATION / Work and business

How to pronounce conscientious

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

Dictionary variant 1

K AA2 N SH IY0 EH1 N SH AH0 S

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position
Secondary 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 conscientious in context

Conscientious describes careful attention to duty and a desire to do work properly. It suits professional profiles, character accounts, and discussions of responsibility. Narration should support the description with an observable action, especially in evaluative writing where a flattering label alone gives listeners little useful evidence.

A conscientious editor checked every quoted passage against the original.
Her conscientious approach kept the shared workshop safe and orderly.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ksound in keyconsonant

AAsound in oddvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

SHsound in sheconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

EHsound in Edvowel

AHsound in hutvowel

Ssound in seaconsonant

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How to pronounce conscientious

Word: conscientious
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: K AA2 N SH IY0 EH1 N SH AH0 S
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
A conscientious editor checked every quoted passage against the original.
Her conscientious approach kept the shared workshop safe and orderly.

REVIEW CHECKLIST
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Practice note: Test conscientious before the person's role and again in the complete action sentence. Listen for the longer adjective remaining fluent, and compare a matter-of-fact reading with praise so that the delivery reflects the evidence supplied by the passage.

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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