English pronunciation · Words Starting with B
Bison Pronunciation
Bison is pronounced BY-suhn, IPA /ˈbaɪsən/.
BY-suhn
US /ˈbaɪsən/ · UK /ˈbaɪsən/
Syllables: BY · suhn (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: A large wild ox with a shaggy mane and a humped back, found in North America and eastern Europe.
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Bison in a Sentence
- A herd of bison blocked the road for twenty minutes.
- European bison were reintroduced to the forest in 1952.
- The plural of bison is bison.
Common Mispronunciations of Bison
Not BI-suhn
The first vowel is the long eye of nine, so it starts like the word buy.
Not BY-zuhn
The s stays a plain s in standard dictionaries. A z there is common in speech but is the second-choice form.
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