HOW TO PRONOUNCE
chaos
/ˈkeɪɑs/
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The first syllable sounds like “kay.”
Use two syllables, beginning with k rather than the ch of chair. Keep the first vowel strongest and let the second vowel lead directly into s.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The sudden announcement caused chaos.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does chaos mean?
noun
- The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
- Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
- A behavior of iterative nonlinear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
More meanings (8)
noun
- One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
- Initialism of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
- (slang) Initialism of can't have anyone over syndrome.
- (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
- (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
proper noun
- In Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
- A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
- In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkeɪɑs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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And when you come to man, what a chaos of hungers and impulses keep thrusting him through his cycle of quaint tasks!
She would spend a day getting closets and bureau drawers in order, and in five minutes he would stir them into chaos.
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Outside, the bowl of chaos was brimming with drift-snow and I wondered how I would manage to break and pitch camp single-handed.
The air, afflicted to pallor with the hoary multitudes that infested it, twisted and spun them eccentrically, suggesting an achromatic chaos of things.
The whole forms a chaos of netting, a labyrinth which none can pass through, unless he be endowed with wings of exceptional power.