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wind

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/wɪnd/

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The word “wind” has more than one common pronunciation in American English, depending on its role in a sentence. Here are the pronunciations:

noun

/wɪnd/

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/waɪnd/

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(Primary stress is marked with ˈ in the IPA transcription.)

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