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How to pronounce oregano

Oregano stresses "REG" in CMUdict, or-EG-uh-noh or er-EG-uh-noh; the British "or-ih-GAH-noh" is not one of the listed forms.

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The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists these 2 North American English pronunciations for oregano. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

AO2 R EH1 G AH0 N OW2

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position
Secondary stress: 1st and 4th vowel positions

Dictionary variant 2

ER0 EH1 G AH0 N OW2

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position
Secondary stress: 4th 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 oregano in context

Oregano is in pizza recipes, spice racks and garden guides. American and British speakers put the stress in different places, which makes shared recipe videos sound inconsistent. CMUdict lists two US forms, both stressed on the second syllable.

Sprinkle dried oregano over the pizza before baking.
Fresh oregano grows easily in a sunny pot.

Read the sound tokens

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

AOsound in oughtvowel

Rsound in readconsonant

EHsound in Edvowel

Gsound in greenconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

OWsound in oatvowel

ERsound in hurtvowel

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How to pronounce oregano

Word: oregano
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: AO2 R EH1 G AH0 N OW2
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
Sprinkle dried oregano over the pizza before baking.
Fresh oregano grows easily in a sunny pot.

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Practice note: Lean on REG and let the last two syllables stay light. Keep the same stress every time it appears in a recipe.

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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