Enunciate

Definitions: Enunciate

Enunciate

Verb

1. Speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?".

2. Express or state clearly.

Date "enunciate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Synonyms: Enunciate

Synonyms: articulate (v), enounce (v), pronounce (v), say (v), sound out (v), vocalise (v), vocalize (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Affirmation	Put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.
Voice	Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enunciate

English words defined with "enunciate": Enunciated, Enunciating. (references)

"Enunciate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Enunciate" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	10	111,207
Lexical Verb (base form)	33.33%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enunciate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shqiptoj (enounce, mouth, pronounce, say, utter), shpall (adjudicate, announce, assert, asseverate, blaze, celebrate, declare, delate, divulge, enounce, hold, notify, post, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, read, state, usher in), parashtroj (bring, commit, expound, pose, posit, prefer, propound, put forward, submit). (various references)

Arabic		‏نطق (articulation, enunciation, pronounce, pronouncement, say, speech, spoke, utterance, vocalization, vocalize), ‏لفظ (articulate, articulation, discharge, eject, ejection, emission, emit, enunciation, expel, pronounce, pronunciation, say, spit, vocalization, vocalize), ‏عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, emit, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), ‏أعلن (advertise, advertize, announce, avow, bill, blare, celebrate, count, declare, denote, gazette, portend, predicate, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publicize, publish, put out, report, represent, rule, show, sound, state, usher, vote). (various references)

Bulgarian		произнасям (articulate, enounce, pass, pronounce, sound, syllable, utter, vocalize), изговарям (enounce, roll out), излагам (bring on reproach, display, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, propound, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, show off, sink, state, subject, ventilate). (various references)

Chinese		吐字 (Enunciated, Enunciating). (various references)

Czech		zřetelnì vyslovovat, vyslovovat (pronounce), vyslovit (bring in, express, formulate, sound, speak, state, utter), artikulovat (articulate). (various references)

Farsi		مژده دادن , تلفظکردن (Pronounce, Vocalize), صریحاگفتن , اعلام کردن (Acclaim, Exclaim, Herald, Notify, Promulgate). (various references)

French		exprimer, prononcer, articuler, énoncer. (various references)

German		ausdrücken (embody, express, phrase, press out, put, reveal, squeeze, squeeze out, stub out, to crush, to enunciate, to express, utter). (various references)

Greek		προφέρω (proffer, pronounce, vocalize), εκφράζω (couch, embody, express, indite, phrase, signify, voice), αγγέλλω, διατυπώνω καθαρά. (various references)

Hebrew		לבטא (express, mouth, pronounce, speak, state, utter). (various references)

Hungarian		kinyilvánít (disclose, express, to descry, to proclaim), kijelent (assert, declare, profess, pronounce, say, set forth, state, tell, to assert, to asseverate, to declare, to enunciate, to pronounce, to state, to vow), kiejt (drop out, pronounce, to enunciate, to pronounce, to utter, utter, vocalize). (various references)

Indonesian		menyatakan (acknowledge, enounce, formulate, profess, reveal). (various references)

Italian		enunciare (enounce). (various references)

Pig Latin		enunciateay

Portuguese		expor (account, carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, imperil, lay open, produce, propone, propraetor, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, spread out, state, subject, turn up), enunciar (articulate, enounce, formulation), enumeração (enumeration, enumeration survey, inventory, tally, valuation survey), declarar (adjudicate, allege, announce, annunciate, assert, aver, certify, converse, declare, demonstrate, denounce, enplane, intimate, invalidation, manifest, profess, pronounce, say, show, speak, state, to declare, to make payable), articular (article, articular, articulate, hinge, join, pronounce, vocalize). (various references)

Romanian		explica (account, account for, construe, define, elucidate, enlighten, explain, explicate, expound, illuminate, illumine, interpret, justify, riddle, show, untie, vindicate), enunţa (enounce, lay down, sound, state, voice), rosti (breathe, deliver, lip, pass, pronounce, put up, say, sound, speak, spout, utter, voice), formula (couch, define, draw, express, formulate, frame, have, indite, lay down, phrase, pose, push, put, put in, reduce, state, word), articula sunete. (various references)

Russian		объявлять (announce, annunciate, declare, declaring, give out, meld, notify, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce), провозглашать (acclaim, declare, proclaim), произносить (articulate, enounce, utter). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		proglasiti (declare, post, proclaim), izgovarati (pronounce). (various references)

Spanish		enunciar (declare, set forth). (various references)

Swedish		uttala (express, pronounce, utter, voice). (various references)

Thai		พู�"อย่างชั�"เจน, ประกาศอย่างชั�"เจน. (various references)

Turkish		söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), kesinlikle ifade etmek, ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, affirm, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, urge, weigh in with), ilan etmek (acclaim, advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, bill, blaze abroad, blazon abroad, blazon out, blow the whistle on, declare, give out, noise about, noise abroad, post, preconize, proclaim, pronounce, publicize, publish, tell the world, trumpet, trumpet forth), iddia etmek (affirm, allege, argue, argue for smth., assert, asseverate, attest, aver, claim, contend, declare oneself, press home, profess, protest, purport, put forth, put forward), bildirmek (acquaint, advise, affirm, announce, annunciate, communicate, declare, give forth, give out, Herald, impart, indicate, inform, intimate, issue, let know, let smb. know, Lodge, notice, notify, offer, pass, proclaim, pronounce, put up, report, say, serve notice, signal, signalize, state, tell, vote). (various references)

Ukranian		формулювати (couch, form, formulate, phrase, word), оголошувати (announce, annunciate, bid, declare, enounce, give out, notify, post, preconize, proclaim, pronounce, usher in). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enunciate": enunciated, enunciates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "enunciate": renunciate. (additional references)
	Words containing "enunciate": renunciates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enunciate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anunziata, ennunciate, enuciate, enumciate, enunicate, enuniciate, inunciate, Nunciate, ununciate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "enunciate" (pronounced unu"nsēā't or ēnu"nsēā't)
8	u n u" n s ē ā' t	renunciate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, recreate, renegotiate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
7	-n u" n s ē ā' t	renunciate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, recreate, renegotiate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-t-u"
	-1 letter: uncinate.
	-2 letters: ancient, canteen, cuneate, eucaine, tunicae, uneaten.
	-3 letters: acetin, auntie, canine, cannie, centai, cetane, enatic, encina, entice, incant, innate, neaten, nuance, tannic, tenace, teniae, tunica, unciae.
	-4 letters: actin, acute, anent, antic, centu, cutie, cutin, eaten, enact, enate, ennui, entia, inane, nance, niece, tenia, tinea, tunic, uncia, unite, untie.
	-5 letters: acne, ante, anti, aunt, cain.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-n-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: enunciated, enunciates, renunciate.
	+2 letters: enucleating, enucleation, lieutenancy, renunciates, uninucleate.
	+3 letters: denunciative, enucleations, internuclear, neurasthenic, renunciative, subtenancies, unnoticeable.
	+4 letters: consequential, lieutenancies, neurasthenics, quincentenary, tenaciousness, uncertainness, uncertainties, underreacting, unexceptional.
	+5 letters: counterstained, discountenance, incommensurate, nonspeculative, nontherapeutic, quincentennial, translucencies, unaffectionate, uncredentialed, unintellectual.
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