--- title: "How to pronounce \"pept\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"pept\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/XDcESvzX58Y/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pept" --- # How to pronounce "pept" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/pɛpt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **pept** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Of low quality; worthless. - *Example*: "been offered a^([sic]) apprenticeship but the wage is absolutely pept" ### Example Sentences - "been offered a^([sic]) apprenticeship but the wage is absolutely pept" - "peptide bonds into chains called peptides. And then peptides What's a peptide bond? Uh, it's just a simplistic bond that binds two amino acids" - "peptides link up to form proteins and your body is made of proteins, your whole body. All of your tissue is made out of proteins. And your cellular" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "pept" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Yeah, okay. How would you explain it? So, you eat amino acids, you eat protein and it breaks down into amino acids. Yeah. And amino acids link up with peptide bonds into chains called peptides. And then peptides What's a peptide bond? Uh, it's just a simplistic bond that binds two amino acids together. So, it can be broken pretty readily with different enzymes. And that's in my body, the peptide bond is in my body. Yeah, so your body has all" - **Watch at 29:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDcESvzX58Y&t=1797s) ### Example 2 > "these enzymes present and the amino acids link up very simplistically into different chains. And then those chains of amino acids are called peptides. And peptides link up to form proteins and your body is made of proteins, your whole body. All of your tissue is made out of proteins. And your cellular receptors are made out of proteins, everything's made out of proteins. So, if you go backwards, those smaller versions are the amino acids, I'm sorry," - **Watch at 30:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDcESvzX58Y&t=1823s) ### Example 3 > "kind of figure it out, then you can use that. We all have our Achilles' heel of something that is the tell. So, when if you have a medical condition like, say, peptic ulcer disease, that's easy to understand. You know, you feel like, "Oh, I have stomach pain." And so, I can't eat certain foods and I need to take care of myself and there'll be a flare and then you manage that symptom and it goes away. And, you know, you know what that tell is of peptic ulcer" - **Watch at 26:01**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN0_ow76hU8&t=1561s) ### Example 4 > "only solution. a class of drugs called glucagon like peptide one receptor a agonist agonists or GLP1s which were originally developed to treat diabets have been approved in many countries for the treatment of obesity. These new medicines are a powerful" - **Watch at 0:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IOl1YBDp6Q&t=48s) ### Example 5 > "over a certain period of time so messy won't you buy inside home Simoni toward peptides our amino acid chains that make up proteins this company creates hundreds of thousands of them and assembles them so that they resemble the coronaviruses most important surface proteins the scientists have been" - **Watch at 1:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVe_TwLo76Y&t=112s) ### Example 6 *Accent: UK* > "peptides in it. Do you know what peptides do for your skin? Don't. So, peptides are helping with elasticity," - **Watch at 8:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cOcaYPFonw&t=496s) ### Example 7 *Accent: US* > "little as nine amino acids maybe up to 20 amino acids so teeny tiny little peptid but it's amazing that in such a short peptide the body can recognize if that's Andrew or not Andrew I mean me again think think about like we talk about proteins in Kil adans right we're talking about proteins in terms of thousands of amino acids that make up every protein in your body and yet if it samples a protein and sees that hey this" - **Watch at 103:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8VM5-CTfw&t=6232s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "and therefore I'm going to generate an immune response to it so we have what are called antigen presenting cells you have cells that go around sampling peptides and they will on these things called MHC class receptors bring the peptide up to the surface and serve it up to the t- cell there are two types of" - **Watch at 104:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8VM5-CTfw&t=6270s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "peptides and they will on these things called MHC class receptors bring the peptide up to the surface and serve it up to the t- cell there are two types of these there's MHC class one and MHC Class 2 I only this is Major histo compatibility comple that's correct and um we refer to them that way" - **Watch at 104:37**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8VM5-CTfw&t=6277s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "there's a study that is oppress and increases sexual desire or something like that um but nowadays I'm reading a lot more about a really interesting peptide um treatment which I think is a FDA approved prescription drug which is um relates to uh a um melanocyte stimulating hormone that comes out of" - **Watch at 110:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJi9Raxikg&t=6624s) ## How to Pronounce "pept" - **Syllables**: pept - **IPA**: `/pɛpt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [peptic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peptic), [peptical](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peptical) ## Related Pronunciations [pea](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pea), [pead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pead), [peag](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peag), [peai](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peai), [peak](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peak), [peal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peal), [peam](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/peam), [pean](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/pean) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “pept”? “pept” is pronounced /pɛpt/ (pept). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “pept” mean? Of low quality; worthless. ### How can I hear “pept” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “pept” with synchronized subtitles. 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