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Press record, say "niche" once or twice at normal speed, then stop. You will see which syllables matched and what to change.
Niche syllables
Niche has 1 syllable: NIHCH.
- NIHCHnɪtʃ
Two accepted forms: NITCH, the older American one, and NEESH, from the French, now common on both sides of the Atlantic. Pick one and keep it; switching mid-conversation is what sounds wrong.
Sounds to watch
Short i versus ee
The short i (as in sit) is shorter and more relaxed than ee. Many learners stretch it into ee, which changes the word.
The ch and j sounds
Ch and j start with a full stop of the air (t or d) and release into sh or zh. Without the stop they collapse into sh and zh, and "cheap" becomes "sheep".
Niche in a sentence
- The shop found its niche selling parts for vintage bicycles.
- Every species in the reef occupies a slightly different niche.
Read either sentence into the recorder above. The check judges only the target word, so the rest of the sentence can be rough.
What Speakeroo listens for
These are the pronunciation patterns from Speakeroo’s speech feature catalog that this target tends to expose. The check above reports the ones it hears.
- Final consonant omittedHold the final mouth position briefly without adding another vowel.
- /ɪ/ and /iː/ confusedMake /iː/ higher, tenser and usually longer than /ɪ/.
Questions
How do you pronounce niche?
Niche is pronounced /ˈnɪtʃ/, or NIHCH in plain letters. It has one syllable.
How many syllables are in niche?
One. Niche is a single syllable: NIHCH.
How do you use niche in a sentence?
The shop found its niche selling parts for vintage bicycles. Every species in the reef occupies a slightly different niche.
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