Chaney

14 spellings, 4 pronunciations

How to Pronounce Chaney

Our model has identified 14 different spellings of Chaney that are grouped together because they share at least one of 4 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 72.7% confident that Chaney is pronounced as CHAY-nee. There are 6 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Chaney is shuh-NEE, at 13.6% confidence. There are 2 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

2
9
64.3%
3,226
53.74%
6.8%
2
7
50.0%
4,238
70.60%
72.7%
2
6
42.9%
5,129
85.44%
6.8%
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21.4%
2,500
41.65%
13.6%
CHAY-nee (2 syllables)
7 names (50.0% of variations) 70.60% of births
CH EY1 N IY0
Chaney
Verified
Confidence: 72.7%
Chany
Verified
Confidence: 68.3%
Confidence: 7.9%
Cheney
Verified
Confidence: 53.7%
Cheyney
Verified
Confidence: 73.2%
Confidence: 60.5%
Confidence: 70.3%
shuh-NEE (2 syllables)
3 names (21.4% of variations) 41.65% of births
SH AH0 N IY1
Confidence: 13.6%
Confidence: 12.1%
Confidence: 9.8%
CHA-nee (2 syllables)
6 names (42.9% of variations) 85.44% of births
CH AE1 N IY0
Confidence: 6.8%
Confidence: 22.0%
Confidence: 23.7%
Confidence: 21.4%
Confidence: 100.0%
Confidence: 100.0%
SHAY-nee (2 syllables)
9 names (64.3% of variations) 53.74% of births
SH EY1 N IY0
Confidence: 6.8%
Confidence: 42.1%
Confidence: 87.9%
Confidence: 100.0%
Confidence: 14.6%
Confidence: 39.5%
Confidence: 100.0%
Confidence: 100.0%
Confidence: 29.7%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Chaney. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Chaney, please vote using the thumbs up button.

CHAH-nee (2 syllables)
2 names 1.6k births
CH AA1 N IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

CHEE-uh-nee (3 syllables)
4 names 1.2k births
CH IY1 AH0 N IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like CH EY1 N IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.