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How to pronounce cups in American English
“cups” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to cups the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “cups” in: all accents · British English (278 clips)
“cups” in real sentences — American speakers
232 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Cecily: I made lettuce cups, but I call them Lucky Lettuce Cups.
The Obama White House
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captures sinking 4M shells into 21 sample cups cups are attached to a gear plate that
USGS
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the design of the K-cups so that generic K-cups don't work with it anymore.
FTC
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.