How to pronounce descendants in American English
“descendants” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to descendants the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “descendants” in: all accents · British English (53 clips)
“descendants” in real sentences — American speakers
180 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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think of descendants and ancestors as cross products of the descendants and ancestors for
Census Bureau
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we're descendants from him.
US Forest Service
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not direct descendants of pterosaurs.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “descendants”
Words one sound away from descendants — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “descendants”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of descendants. 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.