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Acme Pronunciation
Acme is pronounced AK-mee, IPA /ˈækmi/.
AK-mee
US /ˈækmi/ · UK /ˈækmi/
Syllables: AK · mee (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: The highest point or peak of something.
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Acme in a Sentence
- The chapel is the acme of local stonework.
- He reached the acme of his career at thirty.
- That recording is the acme of the whole series.
Common Mispronunciations of Acme
Not AKM
That final e is spoken here as a clear ee, which is unusual in English. Recipe and apostrophe do the same thing with their endings.
Not AK-nee
Acme has an m and acne has an n, and the words mean almost opposite things. A careless middle consonant is the whole difference.
Tip: Acme comes from the Greek for point, which is why so many fictional companies were given the name.
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