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

How to pronounce cups in British English

“cups” pronunciation by British speakers

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

“cups” in real sentences — British speakers

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

  1. we often hear coffee cups mentioned but this is far wider than coffee cups this could

    The Scottish Parliament

  2. and introducing charges for single-use disposable cups.

    The Scottish Parliament

Words that sound like “cups”

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

Other forms of “cups”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cups. 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 →