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How to pronounce focaccia

Focaccia has four syllables in CMUdict, F OW0 K AA1 CH IY2 AH0, with stress on "KAH" and a "ch" sound for the double c.

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

F OW0 K AA1 CH IY2 AH0

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd 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 focaccia in context

Bakery signs and cooking channels use focaccia constantly, and it is often shortened or misread with a k for the cc. The reference spells out four syllables with the main stress on the second, followed by "chee" and a light final vowel. Rushing the end compresses it into three syllables.

The focaccia came out of the oven with crisp, salty edges.
Press rosemary into the focaccia before the second rise.

Read the sound tokens

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

Fsound in feeconsonant

OWsound in oatvowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

AAsound in oddvowel

CHsound in cheeseconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

AHsound in hutvowel

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How to pronounce focaccia

Word: focaccia
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: F OW0 K AA1 CH IY2 AH0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The focaccia came out of the oven with crisp, salty edges.
Press rosemary into the focaccia before the second rise.

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