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

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

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

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

`F`sound in **fee**consonant`IH`sound in **it**vowel`L`sound in **lee**consonant`AE`sound in **at**vowel`N`sound in **knee**consonant`TH`sound in **theta**consonant`R`sound in **read**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`P`sound in **pee**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel

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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.

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Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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