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

# How to pronounce hegemony

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

Dictionary variant 1

`HH IY0 JH EH1 M AH0 N IY0`

**Syllable estimate**

4 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 hegemony in context

Hegemony describes dominance or leadership, often in political, cultural, or economic relationships. It appears in academic narration where listeners may need a specific actor and mechanism to understand the claim. A clear reading should connect the abstract term to the example or argument that follows.

1. The lecture examines cultural hegemony through newspaper coverage.
2. Their shipping network helped establish regional hegemony.

### A practice cue

Audition hegemony inside the explanatory sentence and the concrete example together. Check the reference appropriate to your intended accent, then listen for whether the delivery gives listeners time to connect the dominant group with the influence being described.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of hegemony. 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`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`JH`sound in **gee**consonant`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`M`sound in **me**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`N`sound in **knee**consonant

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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.

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Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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