How to pronounce cliffs in American English
“cliffs” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to cliffs the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “cliffs” in: all accents · British English (31 clips)
“cliffs” in real sentences — American speakers
155 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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[Ben] We have quite a few cliffs.
USGS
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But even in the high cliffs, it matters.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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Rangers pulled themselves over those cliffs to silence Nazi guns.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “cliffs”
Words one sound away from cliffs — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cliffs. 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.