Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with cakes below are plain text.

How to pronounce cakes in American English

“cakes” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to cakes the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“cakes” in real sentences — American speakers

91 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. appeal to children, like candy, sprinkles, cakes with fun colors, fruit-inspired treats.

    Voice of America

  2. He crossed, as we all know, with ice ice cakes in the river.

    US National Archives

  3. a Saturday or a Sunday to go get crab cakes across the Eastern Shore.

    Smithsonian Air & Space

Words that sound like “cakes”

Words one sound away from cakes — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “cakes”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cakes. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with C →