So THAT'S how you say it!

[isthatyoudan]

Are there any Pokémon whose names you haven't been pronouncing correctly? How did you find out that it was wrong? Was it embarrassing? Tell your stories!


Mine was Yveltal. I was always saying it "yuh-vell-tull". Then, I was watching a cosplay show, and someone was dressing up as a Yveltal. The person pronounced it "ee-vell-tell". Luckily, it wasn't too embarrassing because I have never needed to say it out loud to anyone, so no one knew that I had been saying it wrong.

Another one was very stupid. I was not very old very old when I was playing Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team. I was confused why my partner could have a nickname, but everyone else was just named for the Pokémon. This went away when I met Gengar. Being a sub-par reader, I thought he had a nickname and called him "Ginger". It took me a really long time to figure out that he isn't "Ginger", but I still like to call him that :P

 

[antemortem]

I was watching Heroes of Cosplay when it was revealed to me that it was evil-tahl, haha, so I'm in the same boat. Then again, they called a Pokemon Trainer a PokeTrainer... so I'm still skeptical. There are some others I've always had weird pronunciations with that I've never been sure are even correct:

Venusaur: Veen-uh-sore
Pidgeot: Pij-e-aht
Clefairy: Clee-fairy
Clefable: Cluh-fay-bull
Roserade: Used to call it Rose-uh-raid-y

 

[She_Delphox]

Lol being the young child I was, playing Pokemon, there were a few Pokemon I did pronounce wrong, being:

1. Kyogre (I called him "Kai-roach"). Until I heard someone pronouncing it's name on TV, I knew I was wrong xD

2. Suicune (I called him "Su-sheen"). Same as above ;)

3. This is not a Pokemon,but when I first got into playing I pronounced "Paralyzed" as "Para-lee-zed" :P

I also thought when my Pokemon was poisoned and you walked outside of battle in Gen.2 games, that the actual damage taken as soon as you walked, was Thunder/Lightning from bad weather :3

 

[SaniOKh]

Let's not forget Arceus. Pretty much everyone I know says it as it's written, but according to Pokédex 3D pro, it's pronounced with a hard "c".

There's also the French name of Blaziken, that I used to see written in all caps as BRASEGALI, and read like... well, if you read this in English, it would be it: "bruz-galee". Then came Gen 5 with names of Pokémon de-capitalized, and it turned out to have an accent: "Braségali", so it's official pronouciation turned out to be a little different "bruz-eh-galee".

 

[Universe]

I was watching Heroes of Cosplay when it was revealed to me that it was evil-tahl, haha, so I'm in the same boat. Then again, they called a Pokemon Trainer a PokeTrainer... so I'm still skeptical. There are some others I've always had weird pronunciations with that I've never been sure are even correct:

Venusaur: Veen-uh-sore
Pidgeot: Pij-e-aht
Clefairy: Clee-fairy
Clefable: Cluh-fay-bull
Roserade: Used to call it Rose-uh-raid-y

Clefairy : Cleh-fairy
Clefable : Cleh-fable
Roserade : Rose-er-raid

Hope this helps! nvn The rest are correct!

I've actually been fairly flawless in my Pokemon name pronouncing throughout the years, I noticed.
The only ones I'm unsure of are Yveltal and Xerneas right now.

Yveltal : Ee-vel-tal
Xerneas : Zur-knee-us

Is that right? ;; I honestly have no clue but that's how I've been saying them since their names were announced.
Arceus I was also wrong on because yeah, ar-key-us apparently. Stupid.

 

[Liberal Army]

I've actually been fairly flawless in my Pokemon name pronouncing throughout the years, I noticed.
The only ones I'm unsure of are Yveltal and Xerneas right now.

Yveltal : Ee-vel-tal
Xerneas : Zur-knee-us

Is that right? ;; I honestly have no clue but that's how I've been saying them since their names were announced.
Arceus I was also wrong on because yeah, ar-key-us apparently. Stupid.

Yveltal's is correct, Xerneas' is : Zur-knee-as

I still mispronounce the following:
Arceus : Ar-see-us
Pidgeot : Pidg-e-ot
Rattata : Rah-ta-tah
Meganium : Meh-geh-nium
Cradily : Crah-dile-ee
Milotic : Mi-loh-tic
Banette : Beh-net
Gorebyss : Gor-bys
Regice : Re-gee-ice
Phione : Phee-own
Sawk : Sa-wk
Galvantula : Gal-VAN-to-la

 

[Pepperton]

Oh, god. I'm absolutely terrible at pronouncing everything, let alone Pokemon. Whenever I say something wrong, all my friends immediately correct me and proceed to laugh at my ignorance. I probably say every single Pokemon in an odd way that no one else does, to be honest. D:

 

[KostK2Boss]

With English not being my native language, I obviously mispronounce quite a few:
Kyogre: kee-og-reh
Groudon: groo-don
Rayquaza: rah-ee-quah-zah
Hydreigon: hy-dray-gon
Keldeo: kell-day-oh
Genesect: gee-noh-sect
Xerneas: zer-nay-ash
Yveltal: why-vell-tahl
Zygarde: zee-gar-deh

 

[PkmnTrainerElio]

Here's mine.

Gyarados - Gar-A-Dose
Kecleon - Keck-Lee-On
Kyogre - Ki-O-Ger
Groudon - Grou-Don
Palkia - Pal-Kia
Sharpedo - Shar-Peedo (there is another way I pronounce it when I am having fun)
Altaria - Al-Tar-Ri-Ah
Crawdaunt - Craw-Dawnt
Latios - Lat-E-Ose
Latias - Lat-E-Ass
Bibarel - Bee-Barrell
Heatmor - Heat-More

 

[amerininja]

Illumise: I pronounced it (Ill-oo-mize) It is (E-loo-me-se)

 

[Brendino]

In general, I've always been pretty good with Pokemon pronunciations compared to their official ones, though seeing amerininja's post completely reminded me that I continue to pronounce Illumise wrong, even though I know what it's supposed to sound like. The other one that I still intentionally say wrong is Phanpy (saying "fan-fee" rather than "fan-pee"). I know there's no second H in its name, but Phanphy sounds like a better match to Donphan than its real name.

 

[Rosehip]

In a room I go to on the Pokemon Showdown! servers, there was a running gag related to Heatmor. Someone mistyped it "Hatmor" (hat-more) and then it became an inside joke among the room. It was so funny the first time that it stuck with me for some amount of time, so I was calling the poor anteater a typo.

I also pronounced Groudon "groo-don", again because of an influence from someone/something. My friend called it that, so once again it stuck to me for a bit, until I started watching the anime again.

 

[Deleted member 211486]

I still have no idea how to pronounce Groudon and Kyogre. :(

 

[lloebet]

Giratina I always said like "Gir-at-na".
After looking around I seem to be in the 1% that actually did that.

 

[isthatyoudan]

Illumise: I pronounced it (Ill-oo-mize) It is (E-loo-me-se)

Illumise was one of my worsts. I still occasionally pronounce it (ill-uh-syoo-mei)
Now that I look at it, it doesn't even go with the actually letters. Wow...

 

[Altairis]

I can't really think of any that I say wrong other than Arceus - I say "Ar-see-us" not "Ar-kee-us." Why would they use a "c" instead of a "k" if they were going for that sound; it would have made things a lot clearer.

My brother says "Heat-ran" as if they were two different words which get me every time. I say "Hea-tran" which I believe is the correct pronunciation according to the anime? No idea where he came up with his.

 

[Casco]

In my early days of playing Pokemon, I always pronounced Caterpie like Cater-pye (as in, like, pumpkin pie, lol.) It wasn't until I saw the anime that I realized that isn't how you say it. :3c {XD}

 

[destinedjagold]

No matter what anyone says, I will NOT call/pronounce Arceus' and Giratina's names like how the English dub says their names!

I'm sticking to Ar-se-yus and putting the word stress on /ra/ on Giratina's name instead on /ti/. >:/

 

[Azu]

Tepig, since it was my starter Pokémon in Black I always imagined it being so cute and pronouncing his name like teapig but when I watched the anime it wasn't so cute at all and pronounced as well.. really tepig. XD

 

[Blueredemption]

there are two that I really messed up when I was younger:

first is growlithe, to me its growl-thee.
second is rattata, which I love to pronounce rat-a. (I also seem to spell it ratatta)

I have kind of grown out of pronouncing rattata wrong, but for growlithe its a different story.