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title: "How to pronounce perseverance | Murmur"
description: "Check perseverance pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
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PRONUNCIATION / Everyday language

# 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

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

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

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

`P`sound in **pee**consonant`ER`sound in **hurt**vowel`S`sound in **sea**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`V`sound in **vee**consonant`IH`sound in **it**vowel`R`sound in **read**consonant`N`sound in **knee**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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