--- title: "How to pronounce \"topek\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"topek\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/UCUIoHHQRGg/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/topek" --- # How to pronounce "topek" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/tɒpɛk/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **to·pek** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Alternative spelling of tupik. ### Example Sentences - "Topeka, we are at this incredible moment around how, finally, it's a bipartisan conversation" - "Topeka. Anyway, J & T is fun because they make their own, they cure their own hams and they make their own hams; they have like a little, the two guys are from " ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "topek" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, Topeka, we are at this incredible moment around how, finally, it's a bipartisan conversation" - **Watch at 36:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUIoHHQRGg&t=2160s) ### Example 2 > "Topeka. Anyway, J & T is fun because they make their own, they cure their own hams and they make their own hams; they have like a little, the two guys are from Hungary -- where" - **Watch at 17:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQqlYxazZ4&t=1049s) ### Example 3 > "And Topeka, what am I doing here?" - **Watch at 18:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUIoHHQRGg&t=1136s) ### Example 4 > "Although it was not the first case to take on the issue of discrimination in education, Brown v. Board is the most important, because it dealt with public schools. The issue was that Topeka had separate schools for black students and white students. Linda Brown was black and her parents wanted her to attend the white school because it was closer to where they lived and because it was better. The schools were supposed to be equal in quality under the “separate but equal” doctrine, but they weren’t." - **Watch at 5:59**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKK5KVI9_Q8&t=359s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "in Topeka, Kansas, you know, why Topeka, Kansas?" - **Watch at 8:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9HzkYErzd8&t=524s) ### Example 6 *Accent: US* > "In Topeka they actually had integrated high schools and middle schools, it was only the elementary schools that were segregated, and the District Court found" - **Watch at 9:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9HzkYErzd8&t=546s) ### Example 7 > "And part of what Topeka helped us to do with our technology was to be able to scale that prison wall so that we could bear witness" - **Watch at 39:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uWf0uMsfGM&t=2352s) ### Example 8 > "I love you-- Topeka, Miss Alice is speaking to you." - **Watch at 19:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUIoHHQRGg&t=1161s) ### Example 9 > "Malika and Topeka. Oh, Malika." - **Watch at 19:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUIoHHQRGg&t=1166s) ### Example 10 > "They sold 70,000 kit homes between 1908 and 1940 including a bunch of bungalows with Craftsman flair. Salesman from Portland to Topeka packaged bungalow style, all of which had a similar floorplan and, often, a Craftsman-like style but without Gustav Stickley or the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts movement." - **Watch at 6:31**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXcxgOzqgXQ&t=391s) ## How to Pronounce "topek" - **Syllables**: to · pek - **IPA**: `/tɒpɛk/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [tobe](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tobe), [tober](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tober), [tock](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tock), [tode](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/tode), [toder](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/toder), [toe](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/toe), [toea](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/toea), [toed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/toed) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “topek”? “topek” is pronounced /tɒpɛk/ (to · pek). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “topek”? “topek” has 2 syllables: to · pek. ### What does “topek” mean? Alternative spelling of tupik. ### How can I hear “topek” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “topek” with synchronized subtitles. 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