English pronunciation · Words Starting with B
Battery Pronunciation
Battery is pronounced BA-ter-ee, IPA /ˈbætɝi/.
BA-ter-ee
US /ˈbætɝi/ · UK /ˈbætəri/
Syllables: BA · ter · ee (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: A cell or set of cells that stores electricity, or a group of guns or similar units.
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Battery in a Sentence
- The battery in the smoke alarm needs changing.
- A battery of tests followed.
- The car battery died overnight.
Common Mispronunciations of Battery
Not ba-TER-ee
Load BA at the front and let the two behind it level off.
Not BAY-ter-ee
Flatten the opening vowel to the a of bat, since the doubled t holds it short.
Tip: Three careful beats, BA-ter-ee, which runs down to a two-beat BA-tree in fast speech.
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