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How to pronounce anemone

Anemone is pronounced uh-NEM-uh-nee. It has four syllables with the stress on the second, NEM, and the final e is said as ee. The sounds come in the order n, m, n. It is the same in American and British English.

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  • 4 syllables
  • Stress on NEM
  • US and UK IPA
  • Checked in Cambridge and Oxford

anemone

Four syllables, stress on the second

noun · a garden flower with bright petals; also a sea animal (sea anemone)

  1. uhə
  2. NEMnem (stressed)
  3. uhə
  4. neeni
  • US /əˈnem.ə.ni/uh-NEM-uh-nee Recorded voice
  • UK /əˈnem.ə.ni/uh-NEM-uh-nee Your device’s voice

IPA checked in the Cambridge Dictionary and Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. The recording is American English.

Anemone, sound by sound

Each sound in the IPA, with a word you already know that has it.

USUK American and British English/əˈnem.ə.ni/

  1. uh

    • /ə/as in about

  2. NEMstressed

    • /n/as in now
    • /e/as in bed
    • /m/as in man

  3. uh

    • /ə/as in about

  4. nee

    • /n/as in now
    • /i/as in happy

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    Common anemone pronunciation mistakes

    What people often say instead, and how to fix it. Say uh-NEM-uh-nee.

    • Notuh-NEN-uh-mee

      Swapping the n and the m. Read the spelling slowly: a-NEM-o-ne. The m comes before the second n.

    • NotAN-ih-mohn

      Reading the end like the word moan and stressing the first syllable. The final e is said: nee.

    • Notan-uh-MOH-nee

      Stressing the third syllable. The stress is on the second, NEM, and the o is a weak uh.

    Anemone in a sentence

    Hear each one, slow it down, then say it. Words change a little when they join others, so practise them in sentences too.

    • Clownfish live among the arms of a sea anemone.

    • We planted a pink anemone by the gate.

    • A sea anemone looks like a flower, but it is an animal.

    Is it anemone or anenome?

    The word is anemone, and you say it in the order it is written: uh-NEM-uh-nee. Anenome, with the n and m swapped, is a very common slip, but Cambridge and Oxford do not list it. The word repeats similar sounds close together, so the tongue easily loses its place.

    Anemone is Greek. It is usually linked to anemos, the Greek word for wind, and one English name for the flower is windflower. Like other Greek words such as epitome and catastrophe, it keeps its final e as a full syllable: nee.

    Practise it in two halves. Say uh-NEM firmly, then add uh-nee. Once NEM is in place, the rest follows.

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