Pronunciation Insights

Data derived from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. View credits for authorship and licensing details.

Total Words
126,052
Unique entries
Total Pronunciations
135,164
Pronunciation variants
Multiple Pronunciations
8,445
Words with 2 or more pronunciation variants
Quick Insights
/ə/ appears in 39.7% of all dictionary words
2-syllable words are most common at 46.0%
/ə/ averages 1.26 occurrences per word
Syllable Distribution
Frequency of words by syllable count
Phoneme Frequency
Distribution of phonemes across the dictionary corpus
Top vowels by word coverage
Top consonants by word coverage

Vowels (16)

Consonants (24)