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How to pronounce schedule

CMUdict lists only the US "SKEJ" form of schedule, S K EH1 JH UH0 L or S K EH1 JH UW0 L, not the British "shed" form.

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

S K EH1 JH UH0 L

Syllable estimate: 2 vowel nuclei
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

S K EH1 JH UW0 L

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 schedule in context

Schedule appears in nearly every business update, calendar reminder and training video. CMUdict gives two US forms that both begin with "sk" and differ only in the second vowel. British English often starts the word with "sh", which this entry does not include.

The team moved the launch to next week's schedule.
Please check the schedule before you book the room.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

Ksound in keyconsonant

EHsound in Edvowel

JHsound in geeconsonant

UHsound in hoodvowel

Lsound in leeconsonant

UWsound in twovowel

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How to pronounce schedule

Word: schedule
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: S K EH1 JH UH0 L
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The team moved the launch to next week's schedule.
Please check the schedule before you book the room.

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Variant order is dictionary order; it is not a ranking of correctness.
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