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How to pronounce ignominious

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

Dictionary variant 1

IH2 G N AH0 M IH1 N IY0 AH0 S

Syllable estimate: 5 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st 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 ignominious in context

Ignominious describes something marked by shame or humiliation, often a defeat or ending. History and narrative commentary should clarify whose reputation is affected and how the judgment arises. A narrator should avoid adding ridicule when the passage treats the outcome seriously or attributes the characterization to a particular observer.

The abandoned campaign ended in an ignominious retreat.
He feared an ignominious exit from the competition.

Read the sound tokens

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

IHsound in itvowel

Gsound in greenconsonant

Nsound in kneeconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Msound in meconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

Ssound in seaconsonant

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How to pronounce ignominious

Word: ignominious
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: IH2 G N AH0 M IH1 N IY0 AH0 S
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 5
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The abandoned campaign ended in an ignominious retreat.
He feared an ignominious exit from the competition.

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Practice note: Audition ignominious with the outcome it modifies and any source of the judgment. Compare a sober reading with the character's more anxious perspective, listening for whether the voice adds mockery beyond the humiliation the text actually describes.

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Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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