English pronunciation · Words Starting with E
Elegance Pronunciation
Elegance is pronounced E-luh-guhns, IPA /ˈɛləgəns/.
E-luh-guhns
US /ˈɛləgəns/ · UK /ˈɛlɪgəns/
Syllables: E · luh · guhns (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: Graceful good taste in appearance, movement, or design.
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Elegance in a Sentence
- The hall has an elegance that the photographs miss.
- There is a certain elegance in solving it with one line.
- She dressed with the elegance of an earlier decade.
Common Mispronunciations of Elegance
Not e-luh-GANS
The front beat is the loud one and the two behind it stay quiet, ending on a weak guhns.
Not E-luh-jans
That g is hard, as in gas, because an a follows it. Soft readings belong to gentle and gem.
Tip: Elegant and elegance are said with the same three beats, and only the last one differs.
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