How to Pronounce “contrast”

Stress changes the meaning. “contrast” is one of the English noun/verb pairs distinguished only by stress. CON-trast, with the stress on the first syllable, is the noun — a difference. con-TRAST, with the stress on the second, is the verb — to set two things against each other.

Vowel Minimal Pairs Chart — Vowel Audio

Every major English vowel contrast on one page, with audio. The pairs that separate ship from sheep, bed from bad, and thirty more.

Contrastive Stress — How Emphasis Changes Sentence Meaning

Stressing a different word changes what a sentence means. The rules of emphasis, correction and contrast, with the classic seven-meanings sentence.

• Noun and verb stress pairs