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title: "How to pronounce egregious | Murmur"
description: "Check egregious pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
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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

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

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

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

`IH`sound in **it**vowel`G`sound in **green**consonant`R`sound in **read**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`JH`sound in **gee**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant

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## 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.

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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.

[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`

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