English pronunciation · Words Starting with M
Millennium Pronunciation
Millennium is pronounced muh-LE-nee-uhm, IPA /məˈlɛniəm/.
muh-LE-nee-uhm
US /məˈlɛniəm/ · UK /mɪˈlɛniəm/
Syllables: muh · LE · nee · uhm (4 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: A period of a thousand years, or the point at which one ends and another begins.
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Millennium in a Sentence
- The bridge opened just after the millennium.
- Monks copied the text for the better part of a millennium.
- A new millennium starts every thousand years, not every hundred.
Common Mispronunciations of Millennium
Not MIL-uh-nee-uhm
Land the weight on LE, the second beat. Opening loud flattens the word into something closer to millinery.
Not muh-LE-nyuhm
Give the nium ending two beats, nee then uhm. Compressing it into one drops a syllable the word needs.
Tip: Two l's and two n's, but only one of each is sounded. The plural is millennia.
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