How to pronounce photographer

The trap

The stress moves. PHO-to-graph is stressed on the first syllable, but pho-TOG-ra-pher on the second, and the first vowel shrinks to “fuh”. Photography follows the same pattern.

Tip. Say a weak “fuh”, then stress “TOG”.

More on this sound: English word stress: which syllable to stress and why it matters

Say it in a sentence

1. She works as a wedding photographer. Practice
2. The photographer asked everyone to smile. Practice

Tono scores English against the US model and colors every word, so you can see whether photographer landed.

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