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Potato Pronunciation
Potato is pronounced puh-TAY-toh, IPA /pəˈteɪˌtoʊ/.
puh-TAY-toh
US /pəˈteɪˌtoʊ/ · UK /pəˈteɪtəʊ/
Syllables: puh · TAY · toh (3 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: A starchy tuber eaten as a vegetable, and one of the most widely grown crops on earth.
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Potato in a Sentence
- Put one potato each in the oven.
- This potato has gone soft in the bag.
- Potato prices rose after the wet summer.
Common Mispronunciations of Potato
Not POH-tay-toh
The middle syllable is the strong one, and the first shrinks to a quick puh. Fronting the stress is one of the most recognisable learner errors in the word.
Not puh-TAH-toh
The stressed vowel is the ay of late in both standard accents. The tah version is a joke pronunciation, not a real variant.
Tip: The plural keeps an e in the spelling but adds only a z sound: puh-TAY-tohz.
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