How to pronounce butterfly
Listen to butterfly in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“butterfly” in real sentences
710 clips in the index · 147 American · 27 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The black butterfly would mate with a white butterfly.
NIST · hear it here
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You’re a butterfly, fluttering around pursuing a butterfly’s whims.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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It looks a bit like a butterfly, sometimes call it a butterfly.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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across butterfly sub volumes
SUSE Labs · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of butterfly. 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.