How to pronounce bare in American English
“bare” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to bare the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “bare” in: all accents · British English (541 clips)
“bare” in real sentences — American speakers
544 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The cupboard will be bare.
The Obama White House
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bare scree field right there.
US Forest Service
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that it would take to grow in a bare root in a bare root nursery.
USDA
Words that sound like “bare”
Words one sound away from bare — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “bare”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bare. 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.