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peculiar

pa-KYOO-lyer

pakyoolyer

IPA /pəˈkjuljɝ/ · 3 syllables

“peculiar” letter by letter

Each letter group of “peculiar” and how Ingglish spells it (an em dash means those letters make no sound)
English	p	eculi	a	—	r
Ingglish	p	—	a	kyoolye	r

How “peculiar” sounds out

Sound-by-sound breakdown of “peculiar”
Ingglish	p	a	k	y	oo	l	y	er
IPA	/p/	/ə/	/k/	/j/	/u/	/l/	/j/	/ɝ/

Sounds: 8 from 8 letters — 3 vowels /ə/, /u/, /ɝ/ and 5 consonants /p/, /k/, /j/, /l/, /j/
Syllables: 3 — pa · KYOO · lyer, stress on the 2nd
Frequency: fairly common — 7.7 uses per million words in the SUBTLEX subtitle corpus, ranking it #5,200 of 48,804
Rhyme ending: /uljɝ/

“peculiar” — questions & answers

How do you spell “peculiar”?

P-E-C-U-L-I-A-R in English; “pakyoolyer” in Ingglish.

How do you pronounce “peculiar”?

pa-KYOO-lyer — IPA /pəˈkjuljɝ/, 3 syllables, stress on the 2nd.

What is the IPA for “peculiar”?

/pəˈkjuljɝ/ — 3 syllables, stress on the 2nd.

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