How to pronounce “magnitude”
Say “magnitude” in 3 beats
magnitude
/ˈmæɡnəˌtud/
The voice you hear here is American; the British form is /maɡnɪtjuːd/ (see the table below), and a British voice is available in the app's settings.
- mæɡmæɡstress
- nənə
- tudtud
- IPA (American)
- /ˈmæɡnəˌtud/
- IPA (British)
- /maɡnɪtjuːd/
- Respelling
- MAG-nuh-tood
- Syllables
- 3 — MÆꞬ-nə-tud
- Stress
- Stress the first syllable: MÆꞬ-nə-tud. “mæɡ” 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
/ˈmæɡnəˌtud/
/maɡnɪtjuːd/
No audio here: sayit’s voice is American, so a British button would play the American word. Read the transcription instead.
What “magnitude” means
- noun
the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small)
“they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion”
- noun
a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
- noun
relative importance
“a problem of the first magnitude”
Say it in a sentence
“Nobody grasped the magnitude of the job until we started.”“magnitude”, answered
How do you pronounce “magnitude”?
“magnitude” is pronounced /ˈmæɡnəˌtud/ (MAG-nuh-tood) in American English and /maɡnɪtjuːd/ in British English — 3 syllables, stressed on “mæɡ”. Build it as MÆꞬ-nə-tud, then run the first syllable a little longer than the rest and let the others reduce.
How many syllables does “magnitude” have?
3: mæɡ · nə · tud. The beat lands on the first, “mæɡ”.
Is “magnitude” said differently in British English?
Yes. American English says /ˈmæɡnəˌtud/ (MAG-nuh-tood); British English says /maɡnɪtjuːd/. Both are correct — choose the accent you are learning and stay inside it.
What does “magnitude” mean?
As a noun: the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) For example: “they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion” It carries 2 other senses as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “magnitude”?
Stress the first syllable: MÆꞬ-nə-tud. “mæɡ” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
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