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English pronunciation of encounter

encounter

How to pronounce encounter
UK/ɪnˈkaʊn.tər/
US/ɪnˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ/
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UK/ɪnˈkaʊn.tər/ encounter
  • /ɪ/     as in
    ship
  • /n/     as in
    name
  • /k/     as in
    cat
  • /aʊ/     as in
    mouth
  • /n/     as in
    name
  • /t/     as in
    town
  • /ə/     as in
    above
US/ɪnˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ/ encounter
  • /ɪ/     as in
    ship
  • /n/     as in
    name
  • /k/     as in
    cat
  • /aʊ/     as in
    mouth
  • /n/     as in
    name
  • /t̬/     as in
    cutting
  • /ɚ/     as in
    mother

(English pronunciations of encounter from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources © Cambridge University Press)

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