English pronunciation · Words Starting with P
Poverty Pronunciation
Poverty is pronounced PAH-ver-tee, IPA /ˈpɑvɝti/.
PAH-ver-tee
US /ˈpɑvɝti/ · UK /ˈpɒvəti/
Syllables: PAH · ver · tee (3 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: The condition of having too little money to live on.
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Poverty in a Sentence
- Poverty fell sharply over those ten years.
- They grew up in real poverty.
- The report measures poverty by income alone.
Common Mispronunciations of Poverty
Not POH-ver-tee
Poor has a long vowel and poverty a short one, even though the one word came out of the other.
Not puh-VER-tee
The ver and the tee both go by quickly and neither of them rises at all.
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