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title: "How to pronounce quiche | Murmur"
description: "Quiche is one syllable, KEESH (K IY1 SH) in CMUdict: the \"qu\" is a plain k and the \"che\" ends in sh."
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# How to pronounce quiche

Quiche is one syllable, KEESH (K IY1 SH) in CMUdict: the "qu" is a plain k and the "che" ends in sh.

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## The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists this North American English pronunciation for **quiche**. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: **1** primary, **2** secondary, **0** unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

`K IY1 SH`

**Syllable estimate**

1 vowel nucleus

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

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

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 quiche in context

Quiche turns up on brunch menus, bakery boards and recipe blogs. English spelling habits suggest "kwitch" or "kweesh". The listed form has no w, a long ee and a soft sh ending.

1. The cafe serves a spinach quiche every Sunday.
2. She baked a quiche with leftover ham and cheese.

### A practice cue

Start with key and add a sh at the end, the same ending as niche.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of quiche. 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).

`K`sound in **key**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`SH`sound in **she**consonant

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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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