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title: "How to pronounce rapport | Murmur"
description: "Rapport ends in a stressed \"POR\" with a silent t in CMUdict, ra-POR (R AE0 P AO1 R), as in many French loans."
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# How to pronounce rapport

Rapport ends in a stressed "POR" with a silent t in CMUdict, ra-POR (R AE0 P AO1 R), as in many French loans.

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## The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

`R AE0 P AO1 R`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 rapport in context

Rapport comes up in interviews, sales training and management talks about building trust. Readers who follow the English spelling pronounce the final t, which makes it sound like report. In the dictionary form the word stops on the r.

1. Good rapport with the client made the hard conversation easier.
2. The coach spent the first session just building rapport.

### A practice cue

Let the breath go as soon as you reach the r. Contrast it with report, which keeps its t.

## Read the sound tokens

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

`R`sound in **read**consonant`AE`sound in **at**vowel`P`sound in **pee**consonant`AO`sound in **ought**vowel

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## Dictionary source

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