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pronounciation

/pɹəˌnaʊn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/

pronounciation is the misspelling of pronunciation.

pronounciation is the obsolete form of pronunciation.

Meaning of pronunciation

Noun

pronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciations)

  1. (countable) The way in which a word, phrase, letter, character etc. is made to sound when spoken.
    • What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?
  2. (uncountable) The characteristic sounds of a particular language, accent, or individual's speech.
    • His Italian pronunciation is terrible.
  3. (countable) The act of making a pronouncement or uttering a vocable.
    • The second part is the sentence, which is the judge's pronunciation upon a cause depending between two in controversy.1831, Thomas Oughton, James Thomas Law, Forms of Ecclesiastical Law, page 62

Origin of pronounciation

After pronounce.

Questions about pronounciation

What is pronounciation the misspelling of?
Pronounciation is the misspelling of pronunciation.
How do you pronounce pronounciation?
Pronounciation is pronounced /pɹəˌnaʊn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/.

Words near pronounciation in the dictionary

  1. pronouncers
  2. pronounces
  3. pronouncest
  4. pronounceth
  5. pronounciate
  6. pronounciation
  7. pronouncing
  8. pronouncing dictionaries
  9. pronouncing dictionary
  10. pronouncings
  11. pronoune

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pronounciation (page history and authors); pronunciation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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