PRONUNCIATION / Science and learning

How to pronounce psychology

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

Dictionary variant 1

S AY0 K AA1 L AH0 JH IY0

Syllable estimate: 4 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

Check psychology in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio.

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 psychology in context

Psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior. Course narration may discuss a research field, while interviews may use the word when explaining someone's motives or reactions. Keep those contexts distinct, and let the surrounding sentence identify whether the script is describing evidence, interpretation, or a personal observation.

The psychology course begins with methods for observing behavior.
The interview explores the psychology of making difficult decisions.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

AYsound in hidevowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

AAsound in oddvowel

Lsound in leeconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

JHsound in geeconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

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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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How to pronounce psychology

Word: psychology
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: S AY0 K AA1 L AH0 JH IY0
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 4
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The psychology course begins with methods for observing behavior.
The interview explores the psychology of making difficult decisions.

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Practice note: Test psychology within the course title or explanatory phrase from your script. Listen for a smooth connection to nearby technical vocabulary, and preserve a measured tone when the passage discusses research rather than an informal interpretation of someone's motives.

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/psychology

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