"Charade" is not spelled the way it sounds. Its pronunciation is /ʃɝˈeɪd/ in IPA and it has 2 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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/ʃɝˈeɪd/
🇺🇸 IPA (US)
/ʃɐɹˈɑːd/
🇬🇧 IPA (UK)
"charade" has 2 syllables: charade.
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verb
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"Charade" is not spelled the way it sounds. Its pronunciation is /ʃɝˈeɪd/ in IPA and it has 2 syllables. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents — the audio is the reliable guide for a word like this.
"Charade" has 2 syllables.
The IPA transcription of "charade" is /ʃɝˈeɪd/.
Charade: A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
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