How to pronounce auctions in British English
“auctions” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to auctions the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “auctions” in: all accents · American English (91 clips)
“auctions” in real sentences — British speakers
58 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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capacity market auctions.
The Scottish Parliament
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Now, as is evident for anybody who watches sales catalogues in auctions, numbers of suffragette items
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “auctions”
Words one sound away from auctions — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “auctions”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of auctions. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.