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title: "How to pronounce wednesday | Murmur"
description: "Check wednesday pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet."
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PRONUNCIATION / Everyday language

# How to pronounce wednesday

Check wednesday pronunciation with CMUdict sound tokens and stress, then practise two original sentences and download a voiceover audition worksheet.

## The dictionary sound sequence

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

Dictionary variant 1

`W EH1 N Z D IY0`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

Dictionary variant 2

`W EH1 N Z D EY2`

**Syllable estimate**

2 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

1st vowel position

**Secondary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 wednesday in context

Wednesday appears in schedules, announcements, and accounts of events during the week. Practical narration needs to connect the day to a time, date, or action, especially when listeners must remember an appointment. In a longer passage, keep the day distinct from other schedule details rather than rushing through the entire arrangement.

1. The rehearsal moves to Wednesday because the hall is unavailable on Tuesday.
2. Send the revised agenda by Wednesday so everyone can review it.

### A practice cue

Audition Wednesday in the complete schedule announcement, including the time or date that accompanies it. Listen for an unmistakable day reference, and check the delivered instruction against the written schedule before distributing the recording.

## Read the sound tokens

Each example word below is a cue for the named sound, rather than a respelling of wednesday. 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).

`W`sound in **we**consonant`EH`sound in **Ed**vowel`N`sound in **knee**consonant`Z`sound in **zee**consonant`D`sound in **dee**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**vowel`EY`sound in **ate**vowel

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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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