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

# How to pronounce foyer

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

Dictionary variant 1

`F OY1 ER0`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 foyer in context

Foyer names an entrance hall or reception space in a building. Venue guides and scene narration can make it useful by describing what people encounter there and where they go next. The narrator should connect the location to a visible landmark or action, especially in spoken wayfinding instructions.

1. Meet the guide in the foyer beside the ticket desk.
2. Rainwater dripped from their coats onto the foyer floor.

### A practice cue

Test foyer inside the actual wayfinding instruction, using a reference for your intended accent. Listen for a recognizable location followed by the landmark, and compare the whole route at an unhurried pace if listeners will need to act on it.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of foyer. 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).

`F`sound in **fee**consonant`OY`sound in **toy**vowel`ER`sound in **hurt**vowel

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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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