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How to pronounce february

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

Dictionary variant 1

F EH1 B Y AH0 W EH2 R IY0

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position
Secondary stress: 3rd vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

F EH1 B R UW0 EH2 R IY0

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position
Secondary stress: 3rd 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 february in context

February appears in schedules, histories, journal entries, and seasonal descriptions. Spoken dates need to be easy to retain, especially when several deadlines or events are close together. Narration should establish the year and surrounding sequence when necessary, rather than depending on the month name to carry the timeline alone.

The exhibition opens in February and continues through early spring.
Her letter dated from February, just before the expedition departed.

Read the sound tokens

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

Fsound in feeconsonant

EHsound in Edvowel

Bsound in beconsonant

Ysound in yieldconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Wsound in weconsonant

Rsound in readconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

UWsound in twovowel

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How to pronounce february

Word: february
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: F EH1 B Y AH0 W EH2 R IY0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The exhibition opens in February and continues through early spring.
Her letter dated from February, just before the expedition departed.

REVIEW CHECKLIST
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Practice note: Audition February inside the exact date format used in your script, and compare a reference for your chosen accent. Listen to consecutive dates as a sequence, checking that the month remains recognizable and that punctuation gives each event enough separation.

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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Reference: https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/february

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