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How to pronounce sanguine

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

Dictionary variant 1

S AE1 NG G W IH0 N

Syllable estimate: 2 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st 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 sanguine in context

Sanguine commonly describes an optimistic or confident outlook, especially when there are reasons for doubt. It appears in profiles, interviews, and commentary about uncertain plans. Narration should preserve that relationship between confidence and circumstance, rather than treating the adjective as a simple declaration that the outcome will be favorable.

She remained sanguine about the exhibition despite the delayed shipment.
The director sounded sanguine when asked about the difficult rehearsal.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

AEsound in atvowel

NGsound in pingconsonant

Gsound in greenconsonant

Wsound in weconsonant

IHsound in itvowel

Nsound in kneeconsonant

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How to pronounce sanguine

Word: sanguine
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: S AE1 NG G W IH0 N
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
She remained sanguine about the exhibition despite the delayed shipment.
The director sounded sanguine when asked about the difficult rehearsal.

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Practice note: Test sanguine with the uncertainty described in the same sentence. Compare a neutral reading with a slightly warmer one, listening for whether the speaker sounds optimistic without implying that the problem has already been solved.

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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