--- title: "How to pronounce gauche | Murmur" description: "Gauche is one syllable in CMUdict, GOHSH (G OW1 SH), rhyming with \"cloche\", with no sounded \"ch\" and no second syllable." canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/gauche" --- [Murmur](https://www.murmurtts.com/)/[Pronunciation](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation)/gauche Pronunciation · Creative work # How to pronounce gauche Gauche is one syllable in CMUdict, GOHSH (G OW1 SH), rhyming with "cloche", with no sounded "ch" and no second syllable. [Buy $49](https://murmur-licenses.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/checkout)[Download free for Apple Silicon (3-day Pro trial)](https://murmur-updates.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/download/latest)Intel Mac? [Download here](https://murmur-updates.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/download/intel).Not sure? Apple menu > About This Mac shows your chip. Free plan with Kokoro voices, 3,000 characters a day · 3-day Pro trial, then $49 once ## The dictionary sound sequence CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for **gauche**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed. Dictionary variant 1 `G OW1 SH` **Syllable estimate** 1 vowel nucleus **Primary stress** 1st vowel position [Check gauche in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gauche). 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 gauche in context Writers reach for gauche when a remark or gesture is socially clumsy, and it often lands in dialogue or critical prose. The spelling invites a two-syllable reading or a hard "ch" ending, yet the entry is a single syllable that closes on SH. A reader who stumbles here can make a sharp line of character description sound uncertain. 1. Bringing up the salary in the toast felt gauche to everyone at the table. 2. Her editor cut the gauche joke from the final chapter. ### A practice cue Say the word once, cleanly, then drop it into a sentence without slowing down. If the closing sound drifts toward "gowch", reset by holding the SH for a beat before the next word. ## Read the sound tokens Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of gauche. 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). `G`sound in **green**consonant`OW`sound in **oat**vowel`SH`sound in **she**consonant Take it to your next recording ## 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. Copying and downloading happen in your browser. No script upload or audio generation is needed. ## 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. 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