How to pronounce “vegetable”
Say “vegetable” in 3 beats
vegetable
/ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/
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- vɛdʒvɛdʒstress
- tətə
- bəlbəl
- IPA (American)
- /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/
- IPA (British)
- /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/
- Also accepted
- /ˈvɛdʒɪtəbəl/
- Respelling
- VEJ-tuh-buhl
- Syllables
- 3 — VƐDƷ-tə-bəl
- Stress
- Stress the first syllable: VƐDƷ-tə-bəl. “vɛdʒ” 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
Where “vegetable” goes wrong
- Often heard
“VEJ-ee-TAY-bul”
three syllables in normal speech, with the stress on VEJ
What “vegetable” means
- noun
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- noun
any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower
Say it in a sentence
“He grows every vegetable on the list except celery.”“vegetable”, answered
How do you pronounce “vegetable”?
“vegetable” is pronounced /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ (VEJ-tuh-buhl), and /ˈvɛdʒɪtəbəl/ is also accepted — 3 syllables, stressed on “vɛdʒ”. Build it as VƐDƷ-tə-bəl, then run the first syllable a little longer than the rest and let the others reduce.
How many syllables does “vegetable” have?
3: vɛdʒ · tə · bəl. The beat lands on the first, “vɛdʒ”. Read letter by letter it looks like 4 (VEJ-ee-TAY-bul), and that careful version is not wrong — but ordinary speech runs it to 3.
Is “vegetable” /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ or /ˈvɛdʒɪtəbəl/?
Both. /ˈvɛdʒtəbəl/ is the form dictionaries list first (VEJ-tuh-buhl). The careful four-syllable form is used in slow or formal speech.
What does “vegetable” mean?
As a noun: edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant For example: “He grows every vegetable on the list except celery.” It carries 1 other sense as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “vegetable”?
Stress the first syllable: VƐDƷ-tə-bəl. “vɛdʒ” is longer, louder and a step higher; the other syllables fall away from it.
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