How to pronounce awake in American English
“awake” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to awake the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “awake” in: all accents · British English (141 clips)
“awake” in real sentences — American speakers
446 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Jill Biden: An awake crowd.
The Obama White House
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The angel shakes Peter awake.
State Department
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effort to keep awake, fighting sleep.
CDC
Words that sound like “awake”
Words one sound away from awake — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “awake”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of awake. 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.