---
title: "delete pronunciation dictionary"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/pronunciation-dictionaries/{id}"
tags: ["Pronunciation Dictionaries"]
---

# delete pronunciation dictionary

`DELETE /v1/pronunciation-dictionaries/{id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.anam.ai`
- URL: `https://api.anam.ai/v1/pronunciation-dictionaries/{id}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Archives a pronunciation dictionary. It disappears from the API and Lab, and sessions can no longer select it. Archiving is permanent: there is no way to unarchive a dictionary. Its entries and history are kept until your organization is deleted.

A dictionary that a persona uses can't be archived: the response is 409 `DICTIONARY_ATTACHED` with the persona IDs. Remove the dictionary from those personas in Lab first.

## Path parameters

- `id` string, uuid, required

## Query parameters

- `expectedRevision` integer

## Response `204`

Successfully archived pronunciation dictionary

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request - `expectedRevision` is not a positive integer
- `401`: Unauthorized - Invalid or missing API key
- `403`: Forbidden - API key lacks write access to pronunciation dictionaries
- `404`: Not Found - No pronunciation dictionary with this ID in your organization, or it was already archived
- `409`: Conflict - `DICTIONARY_ATTACHED`, personas use the dictionary; or `REVISION_CONFLICT`, it was saved since `expectedRevision`
- `429`: Too many requests - Your organization made more than 60 pronunciation dictionary writes (creates, imports, updates and archives) this minute. Rejected writes count too.
- `500`: Server error
- `503`: The API key could not be checked because of a temporary server problem. The key may be valid; retry after `Retry-After` seconds.

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `e85ef0cd491e`: 1 info
  - added the non-success response with the status `503`
- **2026-10-14** `5ae8f3dbfe52`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/anam/apis/anam-ai-api/changes/v1/pronunciation-dictionaries/:id/delete.md)

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