PRONUNCIATION / Science and learning

How to pronounce statistics

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

Dictionary variant 1

S T AH0 T IH1 S T IH0 K S

Syllable estimate: 3 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 statistics in context

Statistics can refer to numerical information or to the field that studies how data are collected and analyzed. Reports and educational narration may use both senses within a single project. The reading should identify the figures, methods, or subject being discussed instead of treating every use as a list of numbers.

The statistics course begins with a discussion of sampling.
The report includes statistics on how residents use the library.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

Tsound in teaconsonant

AHsound in hutvowel

IHsound in itvowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

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How to pronounce statistics

Word: statistics
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: S T AH0 T IH1 S T IH0 K S
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 3
Primary stress: 2nd vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
The statistics course begins with a discussion of sampling.
The report includes statistics on how residents use the library.

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Practice note: Audition statistics beside the actual figures or course topic in your script. Check repeated phrases such as official statistics or descriptive statistics for consistency, and leave enough space around numerical details for the listener to understand what they measure.

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