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How to pronounce egregious

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

Dictionary variant 1

IH0 G R IY1 JH AH0 S

Syllable estimate: 3 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 egregious in context

Egregious marks a fault or act as exceptionally serious. It appears in criticism, formal findings, and accounts of misconduct. Because the word intensifies a judgment, narration should preserve the evidence and attribution around it, allowing listeners to understand the reason for the description rather than relying on a forceful voice.

The audit identified an egregious error in the published totals.
The character called the betrayal an egregious abuse of trust.

Read the sound tokens

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

IHsound in itvowel

Gsound in greenconsonant

Rsound in readconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

JHsound in geeconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Ssound in seaconsonant

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How to pronounce egregious

Word: egregious
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: IH0 G R IY1 JH AH0 S
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 3
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The audit identified an egregious error in the published totals.
The character called the betrayal an egregious abuse of trust.

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Practice note: Test egregious with the specific error or conduct it describes. Compare the report's delivery with any character quotation, listening for whether the voice adds anger or certainty beyond the wording and the evidence your passage actually presents.

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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