How to pronounce “archaic”
Say “archaic” in 3 beats
archaic
/ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/
The voice you hear here is American; the British form is /ɑːkeɪɪk/ (see the table below), and a British voice is available in the app's settings.
- ɑɹɑɹ
- keɪkeɪstress
- ɪkɪk
- IPA (American)
- /ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/
- IPA (British)
- /ɑːkeɪɪk/
- Respelling
- ahr-KAY-ik
- Syllables
- 3 — ɑɹ-KEꞮ-ɪk
- Stress
- Stress the second syllable: ɑɹ-KEꞮ-ɪk. “keɪ” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Difficulty
- Pro — the sounds are ordinary, the rhythm is where it slips
American and British are not the same here
/ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/
/ɑːkeɪɪk/
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What “archaic” means
- adjective
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
“a ramshackle antediluvian tenement”
- adjective
little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
“archaic forms of life”
Say it in a sentence
“Some of the spellings in that letter look genuinely archaic.”“archaic”, answered
How do you pronounce “archaic”?
“archaic” is pronounced /ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/ (ahr-KAY-ik) in American English and /ɑːkeɪɪk/ in British English — 3 syllables, stressed on “keɪ”. Build it as ɑɹ-KEꞮ-ɪk, then run the second syllable a little longer than the rest and let the others reduce.
How many syllables does “archaic” have?
3: ɑɹ · keɪ · ɪk. The beat lands on the second, “keɪ”.
Is “archaic” said differently in British English?
Yes. American English says /ɑɹˈkeɪɪk/ (ahr-KAY-ik); British English says /ɑːkeɪɪk/. Both are correct — choose the accent you are learning and stay inside it.
What does “archaic” mean?
As an adjective: so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period For example: “a ramshackle antediluvian tenement” It carries 1 other sense as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “archaic”?
Stress the second syllable: ɑɹ-KEꞮ-ɪk. “keɪ” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
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