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How to pronounce perseverance

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

Dictionary variant 1

P ER2 S AH0 V IH1 R AH0 N S

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position
Secondary 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 perseverance in context

Perseverance describes continued effort despite difficulty or delay. It often appears in personal profiles, graduation speeches, and accounts of a demanding project. A convincing narration supports the word with specific actions, allowing the listener to hear what the person kept doing rather than relying on an inspirational tone alone.

Her perseverance kept the restoration project moving through a difficult winter.
The coach praised the team's perseverance after the final practice.

Read the sound tokens

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

Psound in peeconsonant

ERsound in hurtvowel

Ssound in seaconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Vsound in veeconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

Rsound in readconsonant

Nsound in kneeconsonant

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How to pronounce perseverance

Word: perseverance
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: P ER2 S AH0 V IH1 R AH0 N S
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 3rd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
Her perseverance kept the restoration project moving through a difficult winter.
The coach praised the team's perseverance after the final practice.

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Practice note: Audition perseverance with the concrete obstacle named in your script. Compare an understated reading with a warmer one, checking that the sentence still communicates sustained effort instead of turning the word into a dramatic slogan.

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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