"Century" is not spelled the way it sounds. Its pronunciation is /ˈsɛntʃɝi/ in IPA and it has 3 syllables. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents — the audio is the reliable guide for a word like this.
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/ˈsɛntʃɝi/
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/sˈɛntʃəɹi/
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"century" has 3 syllables: century.
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"Century" is not spelled the way it sounds. Its pronunciation is /ˈsɛntʃɝi/ in IPA and it has 3 syllables. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents — the audio is the reliable guide for a word like this.
"Century" has 3 syllables.
The IPA transcription of "century" is /ˈsɛntʃɝi/.
Century: A period of one hundred consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
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