Hillary

13 spellings, 2 pronunciations

How to Pronounce Hillary

Our model has identified 13 different spellings of Hillary that are grouped together because they share at least one of 2 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 90.7% confident that Hillary is pronounced as HIH-ler-ee. There are 12 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Hillary is HIH-luh-ree, at 9.3% confidence. There are 10 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

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84.6%
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HIH-ler-ee (3 syllables)
13 names (100.0% of variations)
HH IH1 L ER0 IY0
Hillary
Verified
Confidence: 90.7%
Hilary
Verified
Confidence: 87.3%
Hillery
Verified
Confidence: 95.2%
Confidence: 19.0%
Confidence: 61.0%
Confidence: 21.1%
Confidence: 78.8%
Confidence: 10.3%
Confidence: 39.5%
Confidence: 87.2%
HIH-luh-ree (3 syllables)
11 names (84.6% of variations) 54.23% of births
HH IH1 L AH0 R IY0
Confidence: 9.3%
Confidence: 11.9%
Confidence: 22.0%
Confidence: 15.8%
Confidence: 12.1%
Confidence: 17.9%
Confidence: 13.2%
Confidence: 12.8%
Confidence: 10.8%
Confidence: 57.1%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

HIHL-ree (2 syllables)
2 names 11 births
HH IH1 L R IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

HIH-lee-er-ee (4 syllables)
1 name 308 births
HH IH1 L IY0 ER0 IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

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 HH IH1 L ER0 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.