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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "amarillo" in Spanish?
ah-mah-REE-yoh, four beats, with the ll sounding like the y in "yes".
Four syllables, a-ma-RI-llo, with the beat on the third. The word ends in a vowel, so the default rule points at the second-to-last syllable and that is exactly where the stress lands — no accent needed. Note the "ll" counts as a single consonant for syllable-splitting, which is why "ri" and "llo" are separate beats rather than "ril-lo".
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El taxi es amarillo.
The taxi is yellow.
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"El taxi es amarillo" ends on the adjective with the masculine form agreeing with "taxi". The x in "taxi" is a normal ks cluster here, TAK-see. And "es amarillo" links the s into the following a, giving e-sa-ma-REE-yo as one unbroken run — Spanish almost never leaves a gap between a final consonant and a following vowel.
Where English speakers slip
The ll is where English spelling betrays you: readers produce "am-uh-RILL-oh", giving the double l its English value and reducing both opening vowels. Neither is right — the ll is a y sound and the a's stay open. Argentine and Uruguayan speakers push that y as far as the "zh" of "measure", so "ama-REE-zho" is also authentic; what never occurs anywhere is an actual l sound. Watch the r too: a single tap, not the drawn-out r of English "marrow".