--- title: "How to pronounce myriad | Murmur" description: "Myriad is three syllables in CMUdict, MIR-ee-ud (M IH1 R IY0 AH0 D), stressed on the first, with a short i rather than \"my\"." canonical: "https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/myriad" --- [Murmur](https://www.murmurtts.com/)/[Pronunciation](https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation)/myriad Pronunciation · Creative work # How to pronounce myriad Myriad is three syllables in CMUdict, MIR-ee-ud (M IH1 R IY0 AH0 D), stressed on the first, with a short i rather than "my". [Buy $49](https://murmur-licenses.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/checkout)[Download free for Apple Silicon (3-day Pro trial)](https://murmur-updates.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/download/latest)Intel Mac? [Download here](https://murmur-updates.tarunyadav9761.workers.dev/download/intel).Not sure? Apple menu > About This Mac shows your chip. Free plan with Kokoro voices, 3,000 characters a day · 3-day Pro trial, then $49 once ## The dictionary sound sequence CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for **myriad**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed. Dictionary variant 1 `M IH1 R IY0 AH0 D` **Syllable estimate** 3 vowel nuclei **Primary stress** 1st vowel position [Check myriad in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad). 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 myriad in context Essays, product copy and narration use myriad to describe a great number of things. The spelling suggests "my" at the start, but the CMU entry uses the vowel of "mirror" and stresses the first syllable. The final syllable is reduced and light. 1. The city offers a myriad of small music venues. 2. She weighed myriad options before choosing the route. ### A practice cue Begin with "MIR" as in "mirror" and let the rest move quickly. Check that the short i survives when the word follows "a" in a longer sentence. ## Read the sound tokens Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of myriad. 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). `M`sound in **me**consonant`IH`sound in **it**vowel`R`sound in **read**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`D`sound in **dee**consonant Take it to your next recording ## Make an audition worksheet Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. 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