Spanish · Pronunciation Guide

How do you pronounce "orgulloso" in Spanish?

Q: How do you pronounce orgulloso in Spanish?

orgulloso is pronounced with the stress described below. In IPA it is written /oɾ.ɡuˈʝo.so/. It means “proud.” or-goo-YOH-soh, four beats — the double l is a y sound, not an l.

or-goo-YOH-soh, four beats — the double l is a y sound, not an l.

orgulloso /oɾ.ɡuˈʝo.so/

Four syllables, or-gu-LLO-so, beat on the second-to-last, straight from the default rule. The ll counts as a single consonant for syllable division. All four gendered and plural forms keep the placement, and the noun "orgullo" is three syllables stressed on GU — one syllable shorter and one beat earlier.

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Sound it out

or A pure "oh" and a single tap of the r. The vowel finishes fully before the tongue moves; English would merge them into a long "or".

gu A hard g and a pure "oo" as in "boot". The u here is a real vowel, not the silent one that appears in "guerra" — that silence only happens before e and i.

llo The double l is one sound, a firm "y" as in "yes", followed by a pure "oh" carrying the stress.

so A voiceless hiss and a final "oh", identical in quality to the stressed one.

Hear it in a sentence

Mi padre está orgulloso de mí.

My father is proud of me.

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"Mi padre está orgulloso de mí" needs "de" after the adjective and uses the accented "mí" — the stressed pronoun that follows a preposition, distinguished in writing from the possessive "mi". Both appear in this one sentence, which makes the contrast easy to see.

Where English speakers slip

Two letters get the wrong treatment: the ll becomes an English l, and the u gets read as the silent one from "guerra" — here it is a full vowel. The r then gets the English curl. Note also the accent on "mí" at the end of the example: without it you would be writing the possessive, which is ungrammatical after a preposition.