English pronunciation · Words Starting with T
Taught Pronunciation
Taught is pronounced TAWT, IPA /ˈtɔt/.
TAWT
US /ˈtɔt/ · UK /ˈtɔːt/
Syllables: TAWT (1 syllable)
verb (past tense and past participle of teach): Gave someone knowledge or a skill.
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Taught in a Sentence
- She taught chemistry for twenty years.
- Nobody taught him that, he worked it out.
- The course is taught entirely in the evenings.
Common Mispronunciations of Taught
Not TAW-guht
The gh is completely silent, a leftover from a sound English lost centuries ago. It survives in the spelling of bought, fought and thought too.
Not TOT
The vowel is long and rounded, the aw of law, rather than the short o of pot.
Tip: Taught and taut are said identically. One is about teaching, the other about a rope pulled tight.
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