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title: "How to pronounce conscientious | Murmur"
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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

[Check conscientious in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conscientious).

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

## 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)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`K`sound in **key**consonant`AA`sound in **odd**vowel`N`sound in **knee**consonant`SH`sound in **she**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant

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## Make an audition worksheet

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## Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/cmudict.dict). The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

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Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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