What does cacophonia mean?

cacophonia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Scrabble Score

Letters

Syllables

Unique Chars

noun

Obsolete

"[…] for I will put no force upon the words, nor desire any more favour than to allow for the usual accidents of corruption, or the avoiding a cacophonia."
"The craze for Cacophonia spread rapidly, and soon there were several orchestras that played only on broken-down and out-of-tune instruments."

How to pronounce cacophonia

Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “cacophonia”.

Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling () so you know which sounds to aim for.

Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “cacophonia”.

Repeat and practice — Say “cacophonia” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.