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xylophone

/ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

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The opening x sounds like z.

The first syllable has the eye vowel and the main stress. The written ph later in the word sounds like f before the oh vowel.

3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1

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“The child played a tune on the xylophone.”

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What does xylophone mean?

noun

  1. Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

verb

  1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
  2. To move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.
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IPA pronunciation

/ˈzaɪləˌfoʊn/

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