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How to pronounce equanimity

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

Dictionary variant 1

IY2 K W AH0 N IH1 M IH0 T IY0

Syllable estimate: 5 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st 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 equanimity in context

Equanimity describes calm balance in the face of difficulty or change. It appears in character studies, reflective essays, and accounts of leadership under pressure. Narration works best when the script shows the challenging situation and the person's response, allowing calmness to emerge from behavior rather than an abstract claim.

She received the unexpected criticism with equanimity.
His equanimity helped the crew work through the delay.

Read the sound tokens

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

IYsound in eatvowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

Wsound in weconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

Msound in meconsonant

Tsound in teaconsonant

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How to pronounce equanimity

Word: equanimity
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: IY2 K W AH0 N IH1 M IH0 T IY0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 5
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
She received the unexpected criticism with equanimity.
His equanimity helped the crew work through the delay.

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Practice note: Test equanimity alongside the difficult event in your passage. Compare a steady reading with a warmer one, and listen for whether the delivery communicates composure while still acknowledging the pressure that makes the person's response significant.

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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