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title: "How to Pronounce Uruguay: IPA & Syllable Guide | Speakeroo"
description: "Pronounce Uruguay as /ˈjɝ.ə.ˌɡweɪ/ — YUR-uh-gway. Say it out loud and get free AI feedback in seconds. Stress falls on the first syllable."
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# How to pronounce Uruguay

/ˈjɝ.ə.ˌɡweɪ/

YUR-uh-gway

Uruguay has 3 syllables. The stress is on the first syllable, "yur". Capital letters in the respelling show where the stress falls.

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## Uruguay syllables

Uruguay has 3 syllables: YUR-uh-gway.

1. YUR jɝ
2. uh ə
3. gway ɡweɪ

Three syllables in English: YUR-uh-gwy.

## Sounds to watch

### The w sound

Round your lips as if for oo and glide into the next vowel. No teeth contact, or it turns into a v.

### Weak syllables

The unstressed syllables use a short, relaxed uh (schwa). Rushing through them lightly is correct; giving them a full vowel sounds unnatural.

### The er vowel

American er (as in her) is a single vowel with the tongue bunched back. Keep the r quality through the whole vowel.

### Gliding vowels

The ay and oh vowels glide: start on one sound and slide into a short ee or oo. Cutting them short makes them sound like eh and aw.

## Uruguay in a sentence

- Uruguay won the first football World Cup in 1930.
- Beef exports are central to Uruguay’s economy.

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.

- Stress placed on the wrong syllable Make the correct syllable longer, clearer and more prominent.
- /v/ and /w/ confused Use teeth-on-lip contact for /v/ and rounded lips without contact for /w/.
- Schwa not reduced Relax unstressed vowels toward a short neutral sound.
- Diphthong flattened into one vowel Move smoothly between both vowel positions.
- Every syllable stressed equally Emphasise one main syllable and reduce the others.

## Questions

### How do you pronounce uruguay?

Uruguay is pronounced /ˈjɝ.ə.ˌɡweɪ/, or YUR-uh-gway in plain letters. It has 3 syllables and the stress falls on the first syllable, "yur".

### How many syllables are in uruguay?

3: YUR-uh-gway. The capital letters mark the stressed syllable.

### How do you use uruguay in a sentence?

Uruguay won the first football World Cup in 1930. Beef exports are central to Uruguay’s economy.

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