HOW TO PRONOUNCE
pertussis
/pɚˈtʌsɪs/
Press play to hear how to pronounce pertussis.
American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
LISTEN FOR THIS
per-TUSS-iss: put the main beat on TUSS.
The stressed vowel matches “cup.” Both s sounds are unvoiced, and the final syllable has the short i of “sit.”
TRY SAYING
“The lecture included a section on the history of pertussis.”
APG practice sentence · CC BY-SA 4.0
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does pertussis mean?
noun
- Whooping cough.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/pɚˈtʌsɪs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
Hicks speaks of a child of ten months suffering with a severe cough resembling pertussis, whose lung ruptured about two weeks after the beginning of the cough, causing death on the second day.