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How to pronounce stoic

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

Dictionary variant 1

S T OW1 IH0 K

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 stoic in context

Stoic often describes someone who endures difficulty without openly showing distress. It can also connect to the philosophical tradition of Stoicism, which requires more context than a personality description alone. Profiles and narrative scenes should show what the person does, allowing the audience to interpret the restrained response.

He remained stoic while the others debated the cancellation.
The portrait captures her stoic expression during the long wait.

Read the sound tokens

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

Ssound in seaconsonant

Tsound in teaconsonant

OWsound in oatvowel

IHsound in itvowel

Ksound in keyconsonant

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How to pronounce stoic

Word: stoic
Dictionary variant: 1 of 1
CMUdict ARPABET: S T OW1 IH0 K
Vowel nuclei / estimated syllables: 2
Primary stress: 1st vowel position

ORIGINAL AUDITION SCRIPT
He remained stoic while the others debated the cancellation.
The portrait captures her stoic expression during the long wait.

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Practice note: Compare stoic in the full character description with the action that follows it. Listen for a restrained but engaged reading, and avoid flattening the whole sentence merely because the adjective describes a person who is not displaying strong emotion.

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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