How to pronounce contests in British English
“contests” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to contests the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “contests” in: all accents · American English (172 clips)
“contests” in real sentences — British speakers
34 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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but short McMillan contests that that comment.
The Scottish Parliament
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started to happen and look at the contests that there have been just in recent weeks
UK Parliament
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but if you look back it's only over a decade you were looking at contests in
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “contests”
Words one sound away from contests — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “contests”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of contests. 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.