How to pronounce “liquidity”
Say “liquidity” in 4 beats
liquidity
/lɪˈkwɪdəti/
The voice you hear here is American; the British form is /lɪkwɪdɪti/ (see the table below), and a British voice is available in the app's settings.
- liqlɪ
- uidkwɪstress
- itdə
- yti
- IPA (American)
- /lɪˈkwɪdəti/
- IPA (British)
- /lɪkwɪdɪti/
- Also accepted
- /lɪˈkwɪdɪti/
- Respelling
- li-KWI-duh-tee
- Syllables
- 4 — liq-UID-it-y
- Stress
- Stress the second syllable: liq-UID-it-y. “uid” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Difficulty
- Pro — the sounds are ordinary, the rhythm is where it slips
American and British are not the same here
/lɪˈkwɪdəti/
/lɪkwɪdɪti/
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What “liquidity” means
- noun
the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- noun
the property of flowing easily
“adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased”
- noun
being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt paying ability
Say it in a sentence
“The business had orders but no liquidity to buy materials.”“liquidity”, answered
How do you pronounce “liquidity”?
“liquidity” is pronounced /lɪˈkwɪdəti/ (li-KWI-duh-tee) in American English and /lɪkwɪdɪti/ in British English, and /lɪˈkwɪdɪti/ is also accepted — 4 syllables, stressed on “uid”. Build it as liq-UID-it-y, then run the second syllable a little longer than the rest and let the others reduce.
How many syllables does “liquidity” have?
4: liq · uid · it · y. The beat lands on the second, “uid”.
Is “liquidity” said differently in British English?
Yes. American English says /lɪˈkwɪdəti/ (li-KWI-duh-tee); British English says /lɪkwɪdɪti/. Both are correct — choose the accent you are learning and stay inside it.
What does “liquidity” mean?
As a noun: the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility For example: “The business had orders but no liquidity to buy materials.” It carries 2 other senses as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “liquidity”?
Stress the second syllable: liq-UID-it-y. “uid” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
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