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

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

Dictionary variant 1

`L UW0 T EH1 N AH0 N T`

**Syllable estimate**

3 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 lieutenant in context

Lieutenant appears as a military or organizational title and may introduce a named character in fiction or history. Its delivery can vary with the intended accent and institutional context. Narration should handle the title consistently and give the person's name and responsibilities enough space to remain intelligible.

1. The lieutenant checked the route with the survey team.
2. A letter from the lieutenant described the difficult winter crossing.

### A practice cue

Choose a reference that matches your intended accent and context, then audition lieutenant with the person's full name. Review every occurrence together, especially if multiple voices speak the title, and make a deliberate consistency choice within the production.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of lieutenant. 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).

`L`sound in **lee**consonant`UW`sound in **two**vowel`T`sound in **tea**consonant`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`N`sound in **knee**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel

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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.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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