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

# How to pronounce zoology

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

Dictionary variant 1

`Z OW0 AA1 L AH0 JH IY0`

**Syllable estimate**

4 vowel nuclei

**Primary stress**

2nd vowel position

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

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 zoology in context

Zoology is the study of animals, including their structure, behavior, and relationships with their environments. It appears in course introductions, museum narration, and profiles of researchers. A useful reading connects the field to a concrete animal or research question, giving listeners a starting point before the passage introduces more specialized vocabulary.

1. The zoology course includes observations of animal behavior in the field.
2. Her interest in zoology began with careful notes about the birds near her home.

### A practice cue

Test zoology with the course name, animal, or research topic in your script. Compare listed dictionary variants with available dictionary audio if needed, and listen to the complete introduction so unfamiliar subject names do not obscure what the researcher actually studies.

## Read the sound tokens

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

`Z`sound in **zee**consonant`OW`sound in **oat**vowel`AA`sound in **odd**vowel`L`sound in **lee**consonant`AH`sound in **hut**vowel`JH`sound in **gee**consonant`IY`sound in **eat**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.

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Source version and checksum

Commit: `74790861f652b15e4ac49015a90074ad62a27690`

Dictionary SHA-256: `81917843c7f44ce2b094ac63873c2c7a4cf802040792c455ba3ca406891c3d22`

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