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It seems 見方 is another one of those words that have become heibanified, is
that right? How acceptable or common is the heiban pronunciation (or as
jogloran mentioned, 尾高型)? [In this small
pool](https://forvo.com/word/%E8%A6%8B%E6%96%B9/#ja) of native pronunciations,
we see a split right down the middle, with two people pronouncing it みかた{LHH},
two みかた{LHL}, and the last one doing both.

The crucial thing is, if the 平板/尾高型 pronunciation is more common, does it mean
it is becoming more (or has always been) difficult to tell it apart from
another word that possibly occurs more often, 味方?
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How prevalent is the heiban pronunciation of 見方?
見方 is traditionally and still dominantly pronounced 尾高, aka accented on the
third (=last) mora, aka [3].

[3][2] has been the order suggested by dictionaries anywhere from NHK 1998 to
NHK 2016, 新明解国語辞典 7th edition (2011), 大辞林 4th edition (2019).

It’s in _more_ recent dictionary editions that we see the preference reversed
to [2][3]: 新明解国語辞典 8th edition (2020), 大辞泉 (2021). But 三省堂国語辞典 8th edition
(2021) keeps it with [3] preferred.

Personally I disagree with that reversal, as even most of the younger people I
know say it [3] still. Certainly news casters and other voice professionals
all still say it [3]. So this is what I would recommend to a learner.

With regards to confusion with 味方, it will sound different in most sentences
because 味方 is [0], not [3]. And the meaning (and as a result
contexts/collocations) are considerably different. I can’t recall ever being
confused once.
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