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How to pronounce sorbet

Sorbet has two CMUdict forms: sor-BAY (S AO2 R B EY1), with a silent t, and SOR-bet (S AO1 R B EH0 T), which sounds it.

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The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

S AO2 R B EY1

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

Dictionary variant 2

S AO1 R B EH0 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 sorbet in context

Sorbet sits next to sherbet on dessert menus, and the two words are easy to blur. The first entry ends on an open "bay" with the t silent; the second keeps the t and stresses the first syllable. Neither form has the doubled r of the common sherbet slip.

The lemon sorbet cleared our palates between courses.
She made mango sorbet with fruit from the market.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

AOsound in oughtvowel

Rsound in readconsonant

Bsound in beconsonant

EYsound in atevowel

EHsound in Edvowel

Tsound in teaconsonant

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How to pronounce sorbet

Word: sorbet
Dictionary variant: 1 of 2
CMUdict ARPABET: S AO2 R B EY1
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The lemon sorbet cleared our palates between courses.
She made mango sorbet with fruit from the market.

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Practice note: Say sorbet and sherbet one after the other so the endings stay apart. Settle on one sorbet form before recording a full menu.

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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