How to pronounce break in American English
“break” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to break the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “break” in: all accents · British English (1,000+ clips)
“break” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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be a prison break. There was an attempted prison break in
State Department
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the target audience trust. So, I'm going to break down, break
CDC
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go on spring break or we were on spring break or something.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “break”
Words one sound away from break — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “break”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of break. 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.