won't

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• Received-Pronunciation: wōnt
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• Received-Pronunciation: /wəʊnt/
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• Northumbria: /ˈwɪnɪt/
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• General-American: wōnt
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• General-American: /woʊnt/
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• General-American: [wõt(ˀ)]
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• General-American: [wõʔ]
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• US, dialectal: wŭnt
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• US, dialectal: wo͞ont
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• US, dialectal: wo͝ont
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• US, dialectal: /wʌnt/
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• US, dialectal: /wunt/
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• US, dialectal: /wʊnt/
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• Canada: [woːnt]
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• dialectal: [wo(ː)ɫnt]
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• dialectal: [wʊ(ɫ)nt]
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• homophone: wont (one pronunciation)
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• rhymes with -əʊnt
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• CMU ARPABET: W OW1 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From earlier wonnot, from Middle English wynnot, wilnot, wolnot, wilnat, a contraction of Middle English will not, wil not, wyll not, will noght, wil noht, willi noȝt, wyl nat, wol not, woll not, wole not, wolle not, wol nat, woll nat, etc., equivalent to a will + not and/or woll + not. For the pronunciation with /oʊ/, /əʊ/, see poultry.

5 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 不會 /不会 (bùhuì) — contraction of “will not”
• Māori: e kore ... e — contraction of “will not”
• Māori: kāore ... mō te — contraction of “will not”
• Polish: nie — contraction of “will not”
• Serbo-Croatian: ne htjeti — contraction of “will not”