PRONUNCIATION / Work and business

How to pronounce philanthropy

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

Dictionary variant 1

F IH0 L AE1 N TH R AH0 P IY0

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd 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 philanthropy in context

Philanthropy involves giving resources to support public or charitable purposes. It appears in nonprofit reports, donor profiles, and discussions of how institutions are funded. Narration should make the specific contribution and its intended purpose audible, rather than using the term to imply an outcome the script has not established.

The museum's education program depends partly on local philanthropy.
Her study compares different approaches to philanthropy in small communities.

Read the sound tokens

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

Fsound in feeconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

Lsound in leeconsonant

AEsound in atvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

THsound in thetaconsonant

Rsound in readconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Psound in peeconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

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How to pronounce philanthropy

Word: philanthropy
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: F IH0 L AE1 N TH R AH0 P IY0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The museum's education program depends partly on local philanthropy.
Her study compares different approaches to philanthropy in small communities.

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Practice note: Audition philanthropy beside the organization, contribution, or purpose named in the sentence. Keep a neutral documentary delivery when describing funding, and listen for whether the voice gives the same clarity to the beneficiaries as it does to the donor.

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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Reference: https://www.murmurtts.com/pronunciation/philanthropy

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