PRONUNCIATION / Work and business

How to pronounce entrepreneur

Check entrepreneur pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists these 2 North American English pronunciations for entrepreneur. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

AA2 N T R AH0 P R AH0 N ER1

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 4th vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

AA2 N T R AH0 P R AH0 N UH1 R

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 4th vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st vowel position

Check entrepreneur in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio.

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 entrepreneur in context

Entrepreneur describes someone who starts and develops a business, often taking on uncertainty in the process. Founder profiles and business explainers become more useful when they name the actual product, customer, or decision. Narration should favor those details over making the occupational label sound like an achievement by itself.

The entrepreneur tested the repair service with ten local customers.
A young entrepreneur converted the empty shop into a bicycle workshop.

Read the sound tokens

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

AAsound in oddvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

Tsound in teaconsonant

Rsound in readconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Psound in peeconsonant

ERsound in hurtvowel

UHsound in hoodvowel

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How to pronounce entrepreneur

Word: entrepreneur
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: AA2 N T R AH0 P R AH0 N ER1
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 4th vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The entrepreneur tested the repair service with ten local customers.
A young entrepreneur converted the empty shop into a bicycle workshop.

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Practice note: Test entrepreneur with the founder's name, business description, and any neighboring job titles. Listen for fluent delivery through the whole phrase and choose an observational tone that lets the concrete work establish the person's story.

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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