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Pacific Ocean Pronunciation
Pacific Ocean is pronounced puh-SI-fik-OH-shuhn, IPA /pəˈsɪfɪk ˈoʊʃən/.
puh-SI-fik-OH-shuhn
US /pəˈsɪfɪk ˈoʊʃən/ · UK /pəˈsɪfɪk ˈəʊʃən/
Syllables: puh · SI · fik · OH · shuhn (5 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
phrase (proper noun): The largest of the world's oceans, lying between Asia and the Americas.
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Pacific Ocean in a Sentence
- Magellan named the Pacific Ocean for how calm he found it.
- The Pacific Ocean holds more water than all the land on Earth displaces.
- Their flight crossed the Pacific Ocean in eleven hours.
Common Mispronunciations of Pacific Ocean
Not PA-si-fik OH-shuhn
Pacific saves its push for SI in the middle, leaving the opening puh almost silent.
Not oh-see-AN
Ocean rhymes with motion: two beats, with everything after the oh folded into one shuhn.
Tip: Both c letters in Pacific go soft, giving puh-SI-fik rather than anything with a k in it.
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