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How to pronounce lithe

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

Dictionary variant 1

L AY1 DH

Syllable estimate: 1 vowel nucleus
Primary 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 lithe in context

Lithe describes a body or movement as supple and graceful. It appears in character description, dance writing, and accounts of animals in motion. Concrete actions help explain the quality without turning the adjective into an empty compliment, while the narrator's pace can support the ease of the movement.

The lithe dancer crossed the stage in one smooth phrase.
A lithe cat slipped between the railings.

Read the sound tokens

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

Lsound in leeconsonant

AYsound in hidevowel

DHsound in theeconsonant

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How to pronounce lithe

Word: lithe
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: L AY1 DH
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 1
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The lithe dancer crossed the stage in one smooth phrase.
A lithe cat slipped between the railings.

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Practice note: Audition lithe with the moving subject and the action that follows. Listen for a clear word boundary before the noun, then compare a smooth continuous reading with one using stronger emphasis to see which better supports the described movement.

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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