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pronunciation pro·nun·ci·a·tion

Spelling: [pruh-nuhn-see-ey-shuh n]

IPA: /prəˌnʌn siˈeɪ ʃən/

Pronunciation is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 830 anagrams from letters in pronunciation (aciinnnooprtu).

Definitions for pronunciation

noun

1. the act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability:
2. an accepted standard of the sound and stress patterns of a syllable, word, phrase, etc.: .
3. the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language:
4. a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc.: .
5. Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.
6. Obsolete. elocution or delivery. elegant speech; oratory. an act or instance of speaking.

Origin of pronunciation

1400-50; late Middle English pronunciacion Latin prōnūntiātiōn- (stem of prōnūntiātiō) delivery (of a speech), equivalent to prōnūntiāt(us) (past participle of prōnūntiāre to Examples for pronunciation

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