How is chown pronounced?

chown is most commonly pronounced "choun" (/tʃaʊn/). "change owner"; rhymes-with-"clown" or spelled "CH-own".

Is chown sometimes pronounced "ch own"?

Yes — "ch own" (/ˌtʃ ˈoʊn/) is one of the alternate readings in active use.

How to pronounce chown (and the alternate readings)

How to pronounce chown

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choun /tʃaʊn/ mp3

or: ch own /ˌtʃ ˈoʊn/

chown is most commonly pronounced "choun" (/tʃaʊn/). This is one of several readings in active use; the developer community hasn't converged on a single answer.

"change owner"; rhymes-with-"clown" or spelled "CH-own".

Alternate readings you might hear:

"ch own" /ˌtʃ ˈoʊn/

Pronouncing project and product names correctly avoids the small but persistent friction of being gently corrected during standups, conference Q&As, and team calls. Hearing the word a few times locks in the right reading better than reading IPA ever will. Pronounce is a community-maintained dictionary — every entry tagged with a confidence level and (where possible) a citable source.

Hear it from the command line

$ say-it chown # primary × 3 + audible "or: …" for each alternate

$ say-it --alt chown # focus on the first alternate

$ say-it --all chown # primary AND every alternate, each repeated

$ say-it --solo chown # primary only, no "or: …" tail

$ say-it --why chown # print the dict entry with source URL

Install the CLI: git clone https://github.com/anzy-renlab-ai/pronounce.git && cd pronounce && ./install.sh

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