---
title: "How to pronounce coup | Murmur"
description: "Check coup pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/coup"
---
[Murmur](https://www.murmurtts.com/)/[Pronunciation](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation)/coup

PRONUNCIATION / Work and business

# How to pronounce coup

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

Dictionary variant 1

`K UW1`

**Syllable estimate**

1 vowel nucleus

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 coup in context

Coup can refer to a seizure of political power or to a notable achievement. News and history narration must make the political sense explicit, while business or arts commentary should identify the success. Those meanings ask for very different emotional weight despite sharing the same written form.

1. The documentary examines the months leading up to the coup.
2. Securing the rare manuscript was a coup for the small museum.

### A practice cue

Test coup within the complete political or achievement sentence, using your chosen reference. Listen for the following words to remain attached naturally, and select a tone that reflects either the gravity of the event or the significance of the accomplishment.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of coup. 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`UW`sound in **two**vowel

TAKE IT TO YOUR NEXT RECORDING

## Make an audition worksheet

Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. The two original sentences retain their normal spelling; this worksheet helps you review a recording rather than forcing a speech engine to use phonemes.

Copying and downloading happen in your browser. No script upload or audio generation is needed.

## 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.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

## Keep practising

[How to pronounce camaraderie](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/camaraderie)[How to pronounce colonel](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/colonel)[How to pronounce conscientious](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/conscientious)[How to pronounce archive](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/archive)

[Build a pronunciation test suite for local TTS](https://www.murmurtts.com/blog/pronunciation-test-suite-local-tts) · [Browse all word references](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation)

MURMUR FOR MAC

## Check the word in a real voiceover.

Murmur generates speech locally on Apple Silicon Macs. Try your audition sentences with your chosen model and voice, listen for pronunciation, and review the result before exporting. A dictionary sequence does not guarantee a model’s output.

[Explore Murmur](https://www.murmurtts.com/#product)