English pronunciation · Words Starting with O
Ocean Pronunciation
Ocean is pronounced OH-shuhn, IPA /ˈoʊʃən/.
OH-shuhn
US /ˈoʊʃən/ · UK /ˈəʊʃən/
Syllables: OH · shuhn (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: One of the very large bodies of salt water that cover most of the earth.
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Ocean in a Sentence
- The Atlantic Ocean separates the two continents.
- We could smell the ocean before we saw it.
- Plastic waste reaches every ocean on the planet.
Common Mispronunciations of Ocean
Not OH-see-an
Read the ce as a single sh. Ocean, precious, and gracious all convert those letters the same way, which keeps the word at two syllables.
Not oh-SHAN
No weight lands on the ending. It reduces to shuhn with a vowel too weak to name, so the word fades after its first syllable.
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