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title: "How to pronounce lithe | Murmur"
description: "Check lithe 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 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

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

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

## 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)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`L`sound in **lee**consonant`AY`sound in **hide**vowel`DH`sound in **thee**consonant

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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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