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How to pronounce lingerie

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

Dictionary variant 1

L AA1 N ZH ER0 EY2

Syllable estimate: 3 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position
Secondary stress: 3rd vowel position

Check lingerie in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio.

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 lingerie in context

Lingerie refers to a category of intimate clothing and appears in fashion descriptions, retail guides, and character scenes. Narration should name relevant garments or design details when they matter. A straightforward delivery keeps the passage informative and avoids importing a suggestive tone into ordinary material or shopping information.

The shop arranged its lingerie by fabric and color.
She packed the lingerie in a separate compartment of the suitcase.

Read the sound tokens

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

Lsound in leeconsonant

AAsound in oddvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

ZHsound in seizureconsonant

ERsound in hurtvowel

EYsound in atevowel

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How to pronounce lingerie

Word: lingerie
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: L AA1 N ZH ER0 EY2
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 3
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The shop arranged its lingerie by fabric and color.
She packed the lingerie in a separate compartment of the suitcase.

REVIEW CHECKLIST
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Practice note: Test lingerie with the garment or fabric names in your passage. Compare a neutral descriptive reading with the scene's intended tone, and listen for unnecessary emphasis that could distract from practical information about clothing, materials, or packing.

CMUdict is a North American English lexicon, not a recording or a complete accent guide.
Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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Reference: https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/lingerie

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Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

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