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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

[Check statistics in Merriam-Webster and listen to available dictionary audio](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/statistics).

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.

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

### A practice cue

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.

## 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)](https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aria/Papers/MastersThesis.pdf#page=115).

`S`sound in **sea**consonant`T`sound in **tea**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`IH`sound in **it**vowel`K`sound in **key**consonant

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## Make an audition worksheet

Select a dictionary variant for your checklist. The two original sentences retain their normal spelling; this worksheet helps you review a recording rather than forcing a speech engine to use phonemes.

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## Dictionary source

The phonemes on this page come from [CMU Pronouncing Dictionary](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/cmudict.dict). The dictionary maintainers acknowledge that errors and omissions can remain; check another source or a speaker when the pronunciation matters.

[CMUdict README](https://github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict/blob/74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690/README) · [Included dictionary license](https://www.murmurtts.com/downloads/cmudict-license.txt)

Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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