--- title: "How to pronounce hearth | Murmur" description: "Hearth rhymes with \"heart\" plus a th in CMUdict, HARTH (HH AA1 R TH), not \"hurth\" as the \"earth\" inside it suggests." canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/hearth" --- [Murmur](https://www.murmurtts.com/)/[Pronunciation](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation)/hearth Pronunciation · Everyday language # How to pronounce hearth Hearth rhymes with "heart" plus a th in CMUdict, HARTH (HH AA1 R TH), not "hurth" as the "earth" inside it suggests. [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 **hearth**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed. Dictionary variant 1 `HH AA1 R TH` **Syllable estimate** 1 vowel nucleus **Primary stress** 1st vowel position [Check hearth in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hearth). 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 hearth in context Hearth appears in home renovation pieces, fantasy novels and phrases such as hearth and home. Because the word contains earth, readers often say "hurth". The entry uses the vowel of heart. 1. They stacked the firewood beside the stone hearth. 2. The whole village gathered around the hearth on the longest night. ### A practice cue Start from heart and add a breathy th. Then read earth and hearth in one breath. The two vowels should sound clearly different. ## Read the sound tokens Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of hearth. 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). `HH`sound in **he**consonant`AA`sound in **odd**vowel`R`sound in **read**consonant`TH`sound in **theta**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. 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