Pronunciation Word Bank

1,345 words and counting!

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  • 'Tis
  • 9/11 (nine-eleven)
  • a
  • a priori
  • abdomen
  • aberrant
  • abominably
  • absolutely
  • abyss
  • accelerate
  • accent
  • accepted
  • accident
  • accidentally
  • accumulate
  • accurate
  • ache
  • acid rain
  • acquisitive
  • acre
  • across
  • actor
  • actually
  • acumen
  • ad hoc
  • ad hominem
  • ad infinitum
  • ad lib
  • ad nauseum
  • address
  • adjective
  • adjutant
  • administration
  • administrative
  • admirable
  • adrenaline
  • adversary
  • advertisement
  • aerie
  • aesthetic
  • affable
  • aficionado
  • afternoon
  • again
  • aisle
  • alacrity
  • albeit
  • Alex
  • alias
  • alienate
  • allegedly
  • ally
  • almonds
  • alternative
  • alumni
  • amateur
  • ambidextrous
  • ambivalent
  • ambulance
  • American
  • amicable
  • amnesia
  • an
  • anathema
  • anesthetist
  • anguish
  • animal
  • annihilate
  • anomaly
  • anonymity
  • answer
  • anti
  • antipathy
  • antithesis
  • anxiety
  • anxious
  • apartheid
  • apartment
  • aperitif
  • aplomb
  • apogee
  • Appalachian
  • apple pie
  • applicable
  • appreciate
  • April
  • apropos
  • Arabic
  • arbitrage
  • arbitrator
  • arboretum
  • archaic
  • archetype
  • architectural
  • archive
  • Arctic
  • are
  • aren't
  • argument
  • aristocracy
  • Aristophanes
  • Aristotle
  • Arkansas
  • arrogance
  • arthritis
  • articulation
  • artist
  • ascertain
  • ask
  • asked
  • associate
  • assuage
  • assume
  • asthma
  • astronaut
  • athlete
  • Atlanta
  • attic
  • attorney
  • audience
  • August
  • auspices
  • author
  • authority
  • auxiliary
  • available
  • avalanche
  • away
  • awe
  • awry
  • babies
  • Bach
  • backyard
  • bailiwick
  • ballet
  • banal
  • bandit
  • banquet
  • bargain
  • baroque
  • barrier
  • basically
  • basil
  • bass
  • bathing
  • baton
  • battery
  • Beaujolais
  • beautiful
  • beautifully
  • because
  • been
  • Beethoven
  • behemoth
  • beige
  • belief
  • believe
  • benign
  • bereavement
  • beret
  • beverage
  • bewildered
  • bicycling
  • bigot
  • biography
  • biology
  • birds
  • birthday
  • bivouac
  • bizarre
  • blasé
  • blood
  • bona fide
  • bona fides
  • bonhomie
  • book
  • bough
  • bought
  • bouquet
  • bourgeois
  • bow
  • braggadocio
  • breakfast
  • Brianna
  • broadcast
  • Broadway
  • brought
  • brouhaha
  • brusque
  • buffet
  • buoy
  • burden
  • bureau
  • burrito
  • bury
  • business
  • butter
  • cabal
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • cabinet
  • cachet
  • cacophony
  • cadre
  • calculus
  • California
  • calm
  • camaraderie
  • can
  • can't
  • candidate
  • Cannes
  • carafe
  • career
  • carefully
  • caricature
  • carte blanche
  • catalogue
  • cater-corner
  • Catholic
  • cause celebre
  • cello
  • Celtic
  • certification
  • chafe
  • chalet
  • chamomile
  • champagne
  • championing
  • champions
  • Champs Élysée
  • chandelier
  • Chanel
  • chaos
  • character
  • charcuterie
  • Chardonnay
  • charisma
  • Charles
  • Charlotte
  • chauffeur
  • chef
  • Cheryl
  • Chevrolet
  • chic
  • Chicago
  • chimera
  • choir
  • Chopin
  • chorus
  • Christianity
  • Christmas Day
  • Christmas Eve
  • church
  • chutzpa
  • circuitous
  • circumspect
  • citizen
  • city
  • civil
  • clearer
  • cliché
  • client
  • climb
  • clique
  • closet
  • clothes
  • clothes
  • cloudy
  • coalition
  • coercion
  • coffee
  • coincide
  • collaborative
  • colleague
  • colloquial
  • colonel
  • color
  • Colorado
  • coma
  • combinatorial
  • comeuppance
  • comfortable
  • committee
  • common
  • communiqué
  • company
  • comparable
  • compensatory
  • comptroller
  • computer
  • concierge
  • confidant
  • confirm
  • Connecticut
  • connoisseur
  • conquer
  • conscientious
  • consonant
  • consortium
  • consummate
  • contact
  • contagious
  • contemplative
  • continuum
  • contributors
  • controversial
  • conundrum
  • conversation
  • cookies
  • cooperate
  • coordination
  • cordial
  • corporation
  • corps
  • correctly
  • corroborated
  • coup
  • coup d'état
  • coup de grace
  • coupon
  • couscous
  • cousin
  • couturier
  • coyotes
  • credo
  • crème de la crème
  • crème fraiche
  • crescendo
  • critique
  • croissant
  • croquet
  • crowded
  • cuisine
  • culinary
  • culture
  • cumulative
  • cupboard
  • cupola
  • curacao
  • current
  • curriculum
  • custody
  • dahlia
  • dais
  • danke schön
  • data
  • dawn
  • de rigueur
  • debacle
  • debris
  • debt
  • debut
  • decrepit
  • definitive
  • deity
  • déja vu
  • deluge
  • demagoguery
  • demonstrable
  • dénouement
  • depot
  • Des Moines
  • desert
  • detainees
  • deteriorate
  • detritus
  • diaspora
  • didn't
  • difference
  • difficulty
  • dilettante
  • diminution
  • diphthong
  • direct
  • discover
  • discriminatory
  • disingenuous
  • disparate
  • distinct
  • diva
  • divisive
  • doable
  • docile
  • documentary
  • does
  • don't
  • dossier
  • double-entendre
  • Doug
  • dour
  • downtown
  • doyenne
  • dozen
  • drawing
  • dream
  • drought
  • due
  • E. coli
  • earth
  • easily
  • eaten
  • echelon
  • eclectic
  • ecocidal
  • economical
  • ecumenical
  • education
  • effect
  • efficacy
  • effort
  • egregious
  • either
  • elite
  • email
  • emissary
  • employee
  • encore
  • encouraged
  • encyclopedia
  • English
  • enjoying
  • enmity
  • ennui
  • enough
  • ensemble
  • entertain
  • entourage
  • entree
  • entrepreneur
  • entropy
  • envelope
  • environment
  • eons
  • ephemeral
  • epiphany
  • epithet
  • epitome
  • equanimity
  • equitable
  • equivalent
  • equivocal
  • era
  • err
  • errant
  • error
  • escape
  • eschew
  • esprit de corps
  • Esther
  • etcetera
  • ethereal
  • euphemism
  • evacuate
  • evaluation
  • evening
  • everything
  • evocative
  • exacerbate
  • exaggerate
  • exception
  • excited
  • executive
  • exhausted
  • exhilarating
  • exigencies
  • existential
  • exorbitant
  • expensive
  • expertise
  • exposé
  • exquisite
  • extemporaneous
  • extraordinary
  • facade
  • facetious
  • facile
  • failure
  • fait accompli
  • family
  • father
  • Father's Day
  • fathom
  • faux pas
  • favorite
  • February
  • feisty
  • felicitous
  • ferociously
  • ferocity
  • feud
  • fiasco
  • fictitious
  • fiery
  • figure
  • filet
  • filet mignon
  • filling
  • film
  • finagled
  • finale
  • finally
  • finesse
  • finis
  • first
  • fiscal
  • five
  • flaccid
  • flaunting
  • flesh
  • flew
  • floccinaucinihilipilificationism
  • flood
  • Florida
  • flouting
  • focus
  • foie gras
  • foment
  • foot
  • for
  • foreign
  • forest
  • forgotten
  • formidable
  • forte
  • fortuitous
  • forty
  • four
  • fragile
  • friendly
  • fruit
  • frustrated
  • frustrating
  • fuel
  • fugue
  • Führer
  • function
  • fungi
  • furor
  • further
  • futile
  • future
  • gaffe
  • gala
  • garden
  • garnishee
  • gauche
  • gauntlet
  • gear
  • genre
  • genuine
  • gesture
  • gesundheit
  • get
  • ghoulish
  • girl
  • give
  • glacier
  • gnaw
  • gobbledygook
  • gone
  • good
  • gouge
  • government
  • governor
  • gradually
  • graduate
  • grande
  • grasp
  • gratis
  • gratuitous
  • gravitas
  • gravity
  • Greenwich
  • grinder
  • groceries
  • guacamole
  • guava
  • guest
  • guitar
  • habeas corpus
  • Hague
  • hair
  • hallowed
  • hallucinate
  • handkerchief
  • hanger
  • Hanukkah
  • happiness
  • harangue
  • harass
  • harbinger
  • haricot vert
  • Hartford
  • Harvard
  • haughtiness
  • haute couture
  • haute cuisine
  • have
  • haven
  • havoc
  • heard
  • hedonism
  • hegemony
  • heinous
  • heir
  • hello
  • her
  • herb
  • heretic
  • heroism
  • hiatus
  • hibiscus
  • himself
  • holly
  • homage
  • home
  • homogeneity
  • homonyms
  • honorable
  • honorary
  • horror
  • hors d'oeuvre
  • hospitable
  • host
  • hostile
  • hour
  • houses
  • Houston
  • however
  • hubris
  • huge
  • Hugh
  • human
  • humility
  • hundred
  • Hunter College
  • hurricane
  • hyperbole
  • hypotenuse
  • hypothesis
  • Ian
  • icon
  • idea
  • ideology
  • idiom
  • idiosyncratic
  • idyllic
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • Illinois
  • illustrative
  • imagine
  • imbroglio
  • imminent
  • immunized
  • impetigo
  • impetus
  • implacable
  • importance
  • important
  • impotence
  • imprimatur
  • impromptu
  • impugn
  • inadvertently
  • inauguration
  • incalculable
  • incestuous
  • inclement
  • incomparable
  • incongruous
  • incredulity
  • incredulous
  • inculcate
  • indefatigable
  • indicative
  • indict
  • indiscriminate
  • individual
  • inerrancy
  • inertia
  • inevitability
  • inexplicable
  • infallibility
  • infamous
  • infantilize
  • information
  • ingenue
  • ingenuity
  • ingratiate
  • inhospitable
  • inimitable
  • initiative
  • innocent
  • innocuous
  • innovation
  • inquiry
  • insatiable
  • inscrutable
  • insidious
  • instead
  • intellectual
  • interested
  • interesting
  • interim
  • interior
  • interlocutor
  • internecine
  • interregnum
  • interrogate
  • interrogative
  • interview
  • interviewee
  • invalid
  • iota
  • ire
  • iron
  • irreparable
  • irrevocably
  • island
  • isthmus
  • it'd
  • it'll
  • itinerant
  • itinerary
  • January
  • jargon
  • Jersey
  • jewelry
  • jicama
  • Joan
  • joie de vivre
  • Jordan
  • July
  • June
  • junta
  • juror
  • just
  • juvenile
  • kaput
  • karaoke
  • kiosk
  • knowledge
  • kvetch
  • laboratory
  • labyrinth
  • lackadaisical
  • laissez faire
  • lamb
  • lamentable
  • lapel
  • laryngitis
  • larynx
  • lasagna
  • lassoed
  • law
  • legislature
  • leisurely
  • lemonade
  • length
  • letter
  • liable
  • liaison
  • liberty
  • library
  • lieu
  • lieutenant
  • lightning
  • lilac
  • linear
  • lingerie
  • liqueur
  • literally
  • literature
  • located
  • logorrhea
  • longevity
  • loquacious
  • loudly
  • ludicrous
  • luxurious
  • luxury
  • machinations
  • machinery
  • maelstrom
  • mail
  • malapropism
  • malign
  • malignant
  • malleable
  • manager
  • Manhattan
  • maniacal
  • mantra
  • manufacture
  • marinated
  • Massachusetts
  • massage
  • Master's Degree
  • mathematics
  • matinee
  • mature
  • mayor
  • mayoralty
  • MBA Program
  • meander
  • mediocre
  • Mediterranean Sea, the
  • meeting
  • mental
  • mentor
  • Merlot
  • metamorphosis
  • metaphor
  • method
  • métier
  • milieu
  • milk
  • minute
  • minutia
  • mirror
  • misanthropy
  • missile
  • mixture
  • model
  • modern
  • module
  • moisture
  • Monet
  • monotonous
  • Mont Blanc
  • montage
  • month
  • mood
  • Mother's Day
  • mountain
  • Mozart
  • mozzarella
  • murderer
  • museum
  • mustn't
  • mutual
  • mystery
  • nacre
  • naive
  • naiveté
  • narcissistic
  • narrator
  • nascent
  • nature
  • nauseous
  • negotiation
  • nemesis
  • neophyte
  • nervous
  • Nevada
  • New Jersey
  • New Year's Day
  • Newark
  • news
  • next
  • niche
  • nihilism
  • ninetieth
  • ninth
  • no one
  • Nobel
  • noblesse oblige
  • nom de guerre
  • nomad
  • nominee
  • nonchalance
  • northern
  • notice
  • notorious
  • novel
  • nowhere
  • nuances
  • nuclear
  • numerous
  • obfuscate
  • obnoxious
  • obscure
  • obsequious
  • obsolete
  • obvious
  • occupied
  • occur
  • octave
  • oeuvre
  • of
  • office
  • often
  • okay
  • omnipotent
  • omniscient
  • onion
  • onomatopoeia
  • operation
  • ophthalmologist
  • opponent
  • Optimum Online
  • or
  • orange juice
  • Oregon
  • organization
  • origami
  • original
  • other
  • otolaryngologist
  • oven
  • overhead
  • oxymoron
  • Ozarks
  • paean
  • palm
  • Palm Sunday
  • panacea
  • panache
  • panoply
  • paparazzi
  • parade
  • paradigm
  • paraphernalia
  • parents
  • pariah
  • parroted
  • particularly
  • party
  • passé
  • pasta
  • paté
  • patently
  • pathos
  • patience
  • patina
  • patios
  • patronize
  • pattern
  • Paula
  • pear
  • peculiar
  • peculiarly
  • pejorative
  • peninsula
  • penultimate
  • people
  • per capita
  • perhaps
  • period
  • peripatetic
  • periphery
  • permanent
  • persevere
  • persona non grata
  • personnel
  • persuade
  • phenomenon
  • photograph
  • picayune
  • picture
  • pied-à-terre
  • pilates
  • Pinot Noir
  • pint
  • piquant
  • pique
  • pizza
  • placate
  • plaid
  • plebeian
  • pleonastic
  • plethora
  • pneumonia
  • poem
  • poignant
  • poise
  • police
  • policeman
  • political
  • pollutants
  • popular
  • population
  • position
  • posthumously
  • postpone
  • posture
  • potatoes
  • potential
  • pothole
  • potpourri
  • Poughkeepsie
  • precipitation
  • precocious
  • predicament
  • preferable
  • prelate
  • premonition
  • prenuptial
  • preoccupied
  • preposterous
  • prerogative
  • prescient
  • prescription
  • president
  • pretty
  • preventive
  • prima facie
  • primeval
  • privilege
  • prix fixe
  • probably
  • problem
  • process
  • progress
  • pronunciation
  • prosciutto
  • prosperous
  • protegé
  • provocative
  • psalm
  • pseudonym
  • psoriasis
  • psychologists
  • Pulitzer Prize
  • punctual
  • punitive
  • purée
  • push
  • qualms
  • quarterly
  • quasi
  • queasy
  • query
  • quesadilla
  • question
  • questionnaire
  • queue
  • quiche
  • quid pro quo
  • quiescent
  • quiet
  • quinoa
  • quintessential
  • quixotic
  • ragged
  • raison d'etre
  • rapport
  • rapprochement
  • ratatouille
  • read
  • realize
  • really
  • rearrangement
  • receipt
  • recognize
  • record
  • recreation
  • reduction
  • refrigerator
  • regime
  • regularly
  • reinforce
  • remember
  • Renoir
  • repairs
  • repartee
  • repertoire
  • reschedule
  • reservoir
  • resolutions
  • resonant
  • resounding
  • respect
  • restaurant
  • results
  • resumé
  • reverberated
  • rhetoric
  • rhythm
  • ricochet
  • ring
  • risqué
  • road
  • robot
  • Rockefeller
  • roll
  • romantic
  • Roosevelt
  • rosacea
  • rural
  • rutabaga
  • sachets
  • sacrosanct
  • said
  • salad
  • sale
  • salmon
  • salutary
  • sandwich
  • sartorial
  • saw
  • says
  • scallops
  • scarce
  • scenery
  • schadenfreude
  • schedule
  • schism
  • schizophrenic
  • schlep
  • school
  • schwa
  • scintilla
  • scintillating
  • scion
  • scrutinize
  • Seder
  • segueing
  • sentence
  • separate
  • September
  • serendipitous
  • sergeant
  • serious
  • sesquipedalian
  • severity
  • sew
  • Shakespearean
  • sidewalk
  • siege
  • sieve
  • signal
  • silhouetted
  • similar
  • simulacrum
  • simultaneously
  • sincere
  • sine qua non
  • sinecures
  • sing
  • singer
  • situation
  • snafu
  • sobriquet
  • socialism
  • software
  • soiree
  • solace
  • solder
  • soldier
  • solely
  • solemn
  • soliloquy
  • solstice
  • something
  • sommelier
  • soon
  • sophistry
  • sophomore
  • soporific
  • soup du jour
  • southern
  • sovereign
  • sparse
  • species
  • spiel
  • spontaneity
  • squirrel
  • Stamford
  • statement
  • statistics
  • status
  • stimulus
  • stomach
  • street
  • strength
  • strenuous
  • striped
  • student
  • suave
  • subject
  • subordinate
  • subsidiary
  • subsidy
  • substantive
  • subtle
  • subway
  • succeed
  • successful
  • succinct
  • succumb
  • suddenly
  • suggest
  • suit
  • suite
  • supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  • superfluous
  • superiority
  • superlative
  • support
  • sure
  • surprise
  • Switzerland
  • sword
  • sycophant
  • symphonic
  • synergistic
  • synonymous
  • synthesis
  • tarpaulin
  • taught
  • taxes
  • tear
  • technique
  • telephone
  • television
  • temperature
  • temporarily
  • terrible
  • terrorism
  • terrorist
  • tertiary
  • test
  • tête-à-tête
  • textiles
  • Thames
  • the
  • The Civil War
  • theatre
  • theoretically
  • there
  • thesis
  • thirtieth
  • this
  • Thomas
  • Thompson
  • thorough
  • thoroughly
  • thyme
  • timbre
  • title
  • to
  • told
  • tolerance
  • toll
  • tongue
  • touch
  • touché
  • tournament
  • toward
  • towel
  • train
  • transcendental
  • trauma
  • tremendous
  • tripod
  • triumvirate
  • tsunami
  • tuberculosis
  • Tuesday
  • tuition
  • twenty
  • two
  • Tyrwhitt
  • ubiquitous
  • unconscionable
  • understand
  • unfathomable
  • unhappy
  • university
  • unrequited
  • unusual
  • urban
  • ushers
  • Utah
  • uvula
  • vague
  • valet
  • valley
  • valuable
  • various
  • vegan
  • vegetable
  • vehement
  • vehicle
  • velum
  • verboten
  • Vermont
  • veteran
  • veterinarian
  • via
  • vice versa
  • vicious
  • vigilant
  • villain
  • vineyard
  • viola
  • virile
  • virtuosic
  • virtuosity
  • virulent
  • visa
  • visceral
  • viscount
  • vocabulary
  • volatile
  • vowel
  • vulnerable
  • waiter
  • wan
  • wanted
  • water
  • Wednesday
  • Weltanschauung
  • western
  • wheel
  • whirl
  • whisper
  • whistle
  • winding
  • winter
  • with
  • woman
  • womb
  • won't
  • wonderful
  • wooed
  • Worcester
  • work
  • world
  • would
  • wouldn't
  • wound
  • writing
  • written
  • wrong
  • wunderkind
  • wuss
  • yacht
  • Yale
  • year
  • York
  • zeitgeist
  • zoology