FYI… pronunciate is not a word. FYI means for your information. I have often heard English learners say “pronunciate”, rather than pronounce. I do not know where or how they learned or guessed that pronunciate might be a legitimate verb. My search of the following online dictionaries unanimously indicated that the word pronunciate was “Not Listed”: Meriam-Webster, Cambridge, Oxford Advanced Leaners Dictionary, Oxford Lexico, Longman, Collins, Macmillan, and The American Heritage Dictionary. Perhaps, as has been suggested, it’s simply a hybrid of pronounce and enounce. I can easily imagine that the learners may believe that pronunciate is the logical derivative of the noun pronunciation. After all: – graduation leads to graduate – accommodation leads to accommodate - orientation leads to orientate (British) – mutation leads to mutate, and – enunciation leads to enunciate So, why wouldn’t pronunciation lead to pronunciate? If you have used pronunciate in the past, I suggest you stop using it and use pronounce instead. This tip cost you nothing, but I hope it was worth more than nothing... keep smiling