--- title: "How to pronounce \"failover\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"failover\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/X4cPWFg0mkk/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failover" --- # How to pronounce "failover" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/fɪlɒvɛr/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/En-uk-failover.ogg/En-uk-failover.ogg.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **fai·lo·ver** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup. - *Example*: "Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "failover" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "because we had to reroot our power supply that requires taking down systems and powering them up again and that takes time there there is no there is no failover or switch over in minutes for no no one but that's not what I'm asking I'm asking how is it that that is the system how is it that there is no other ability to depend on anything else it was one fire at one substation that took out" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4cPWFg0mkk&t=341s) ### Example 2 > "Um, and actually like this these routers the the router that I did all my work on is not really a consumer home device. Um, what what I have is a router that has like a 5G failover. And generally what you'd use that for is like an oil pipeline or a point of sale where the internet going down would be very bad. Uh, so this 5G failover is like you stick in a T-Mobile card and like you can failover to T-Mobile's network. You generally don't need that in a home." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GP8vCy_Eo&t=143s) ### Example 3 > "has like a 5G failover. And generally what you'd use that for is like an oil pipeline or a point of sale where the internet going down would be very bad. Uh, so this 5G failover is like you stick in a T-Mobile card and like you can failover to T-Mobile's network. You generally don't need that in a home. Right. So, that's one device on one desk. But, how many more out there? We checked with Simon Sharwood of the tech news outlet The Register." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GP8vCy_Eo&t=153s) ### Example 4 > "systems in place so How you work around this kind of that nasda Seems To be having you know I think I think my advice would be to have a second system A failover and even if that um Which I'm Sure the nasdaq does have in place So my question would be why why didn't it Switch over to the secondary System uh You're not able to" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JCFx9n-tyQ&t=178s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [faith](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/faith), [faience](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/faience), [fail](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/fail), [failing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failing), [failingly](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failingly), [failingness](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failingness), [faille](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/faille), [failure](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failure) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "failover" correctly? "failover" is pronounced `/fɪlɒvɛr/`. Syllable breakdown: **fai·lo·ver**. ### What does "failover" mean in context? An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failover#webpage", "url": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/failover", "name": "How to pronounce \"failover\" in English | SayItVid", "description": "Learn how to say \"failover\" correctly. 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