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How to pronounce sherbet

Sherbet has only one r sound in CMUdict, SH ER1 B AH0 T, so the common "sherbert" with a second r is not the listed reading.

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

SH ER1 B AH0 T

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 sherbet in context

Ice cream counters and dessert recipes use sherbet often, and many speakers add an extra r to the second syllable. The reference keeps one r in the first syllable and ends on a light "buht". It is a small difference that listeners who know the spelling will notice.

Rainbow sherbet melted faster than the vanilla on the porch.
Serve the lime sherbet in chilled glasses.

Read the sound tokens

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

SHsound in sheconsonant

ERsound in hurtvowel

Bsound in beconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

Tsound in teaconsonant

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How to pronounce sherbet

Word: sherbet
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: SH ER1 B AH0 T
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
Rainbow sherbet melted faster than the vanilla on the porch.
Serve the lime sherbet in chilled glasses.

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Practice note: Say the second syllable on its own as "buht" before joining it to the first. If the r keeps creeping in, slow the transition and let the lips close straight onto B.

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