HOW TO PRONOUNCE
yacht
/jɑt/
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One syllable, with no ch sound.
Yacht begins with the y sound in yes and ends with t. The written ch adds no separate consonant, and the word has only one vowel beat.
1 syllable
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“The yacht was anchored in the harbor.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does yacht mean?
noun
- A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
- Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.
verb
- To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- A type of dice game, similar to the Latin American game Generala.
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IPA pronunciation
/jɑt/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The “Tankadere” was a neat little craft of twenty tons, as gracefully built as if she were a racing yacht.
"A yacht, presumably, is lying off the coast in readiness. Fu-Manchu may even have designed to ship him direct to China."
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To penalize a yacht in proportion to the fineness of her performance is unfair to the craft and to her men.
Theron felt, rather than phrased to himself, that there would not be “ten or a dozen in the party” on that yacht.
The Lighthouse yacht rode at another buoy with all hands on board that could possibly be spared out of the floating light.