How to pronounce coal in American English
“coal” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to coal the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “coal” in: all accents · British English (743 clips)
“coal” 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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Coal mining bands most jobs in coal mining.
Dept of Labor
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and coal product manufacturing.
Census Bureau
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ENTIRE COAL LOY BACTERIA.
NASA
Words that sound like “coal”
Words one sound away from coal — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “coal”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of coal. 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.