How to pronounce cruel in American English
“cruel” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to cruel the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “cruel” in: all accents · British English (792 clips)
“cruel” in real sentences — American speakers
197 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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When you say cruel and unusual, that's what that was, cruel and unusual.
Dept of Justice
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cruel repression by the PRC.
State Department
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constitutes cruel and unusual punishment?
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “cruel”
Words one sound away from cruel — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “cruel”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cruel. 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.