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Alchemist Pronunciation
Alchemist is pronounced AL-chuh-mist, IPA /ˈæltʃəmɪst/.
AL-chuh-mist
US /ˈæltʃəmɪst/ · UK /ˈælkɪˌmɪst/
Syllables: AL · chuh · mist (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: A practitioner of alchemy, the medieval art of trying to turn base metals into gold.
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Alchemist in a Sentence
- The alchemist left forty notebooks of failed recipes.
- Newton spent more years as an alchemist than as a physicist.
- She works like an alchemist, turning leftovers into dinner.
Common Mispronunciations of Alchemist
Not al-KEM-ist
Volume belongs to AL and never shifts, even though the related alchemical does move it to the middle.
Not AL-shuh-mist
An sh reading of ch belongs to French borrowings such as machine. Here the ch has its English church value in American usage and a hard k in British.
Tip: The two accents part company on the ch. Americans say AL-chuh-mist and British dictionaries give AL-ki-mist, with the k of chemist.
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