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Walnut Pronunciation
Walnut is pronounced WAWL-nuht, IPA /ˈwɔlˌnət/.
WAWL-nuht
US /ˈwɔlˌnət/ · UK /ˈwɒlnʌt/
Syllables: WAWL · nuht (2 syllables, stress on syllable 1)
noun: A wrinkled edible nut, or the hard brown wood of the tree that bears it.
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Walnut in a Sentence
- She scattered chopped walnut over the salad.
- The table is solid walnut and weighs a great deal.
- A walnut tree stood at the bottom of the garden.
Common Mispronunciations of Walnut
Not wawl-NUHT
The push is at the front and the nut at the close shrinks to a weak nuht.
Not WAL-nut
British dictionaries round that first vowel towards the o of lot and American ones towards the aw of law. Neither leaves it flat.
Tip: The second half is the word nut, but it never takes the full vowel that nut has on its own.
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