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How to pronounce inchoate

Inchoate has a k sound for ch in CMUdict, in-KOH-ut (IH2 N K OW1 AH0 T), three syllables stressed on the second.

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The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for inchoate. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

IH2 N K OW1 AH0 T

Syllable estimate: 3 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd 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 inchoate in context

Inchoate means only partly formed, and it appears in literary criticism, legal writing and essays about early ideas. Readers who see inch at the front say "inch-oh-ate". The entry uses a k and stresses the long o.

The plan was still inchoate when we presented it.
His inchoate anger finally found words in the letter.

Read the sound tokens

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

IHsound in itvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

Ksound in keyconsonant

OWsound in oatvowel

AHsound in hutvowel

Tsound in teaconsonant

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How to pronounce inchoate

Word: inchoate
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: IH2 N K OW1 AH0 T
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 3
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

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The plan was still inchoate when we presented it.
His inchoate anger finally found words in the letter.

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Practice note: Read the word as in-KOH-ut, ignoring the inch you see. The last syllable is light, so do not rhyme it with late.

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