Shafia

1 spelling, 4 pronunciations

How to Pronounce Shafia

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shafia.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to the name to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 68.6% confident that Shafia is pronounced as shuh-FEE-uh. We didn't find any other names that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Shafia is SHAH-fee-uh, at 14.3% confidence. We didn't find any other names that share this pronunciation.

shuh-FEE-uh (3 syllables)
SH AH0 F IY1 AH0
Confidence: 68.6%
SHAH-fee-uh (3 syllables)
SH AA1 F IY0 AH0
Confidence: 14.3%
shah-FEE-uh (3 syllables)
SH AA0 F IY1 AH0
Confidence: 8.6%
SHA-fee-uh (3 syllables)
SH AE1 F IY0 AH0
Confidence: 8.6%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHEH-vuh (2 syllables)
1 name 340 births
SH EH1 V AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

shih-vai (2 syllables)
1 name 213 births
SH IH0 V AY0

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 SH AH0 F IY1 AH0) 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.