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How to pronounce regime

Regime ends in "ZHEEM" in CMUdict, ruh-ZHEEM or ray-ZHEEM; the g is the "zh" of "measure", not the hard j of "jeep".

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The dictionary sound sequence

CMUdict lists these 2 North American English pronunciations for regime. Read each sequence from left to right. The numbers mark vowel stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

Dictionary variant 1

R AH0 ZH IY1 M

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

Dictionary variant 2

R EY0 ZH IY1 M

Syllable estimate: 2 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 regime in context

Regime runs through news coverage, history narration and fitness writing about training regimes. The g is often pronounced like the j in jeep. Both entries use the softer zh of measure and stress the second syllable.

The old regime collapsed within a year of the protests.
Her training regime includes three long runs a week.

Read the sound tokens

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

Rsound in readconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

ZHsound in seizureconsonant

IYsound in eatvowel

Msound in meconsonant

EYsound in atevowel

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How to pronounce regime

Word: regime
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: R AH0 ZH IY1 M
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

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The old regime collapsed within a year of the protests.
Her training regime includes three long runs a week.

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Practice note: Hold the middle sound of measure, then carry it into regime. The stress stays on the second syllable.

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