English pronunciation · Words Starting with U
Utopia Pronunciation
Utopia is pronounced yoo-TOH-pee-uh, IPA /juˈtoʊpiə/.
yoo-TOH-pee-uh
US /juˈtoʊpiə/ · UK /juːˈtəʊpiə/
Syllables: yoo · TOH · pee · uh (4 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: An imagined place where everything has been arranged perfectly.
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Utopia in a Sentence
- The novel describes a utopia run entirely by engineers.
- Their plan for the village was closer to utopia than to policy.
- Every utopia in print turns out to have one rule nobody likes.
Common Mispronunciations of Utopia
Not OO-toh-pee-uh
That initial u says its own letter name, yoo, the way it does in unit and uniform.
Not yoo-TOP-ee-uh
Lengthen the stressed o into the oh of go, which gives TOH and keeps top out of it.
Tip: Utopian keeps the same shape with one beat added: yoo-TOH-pee-uhn.
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