How to pronounce dress in American English
“dress” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to dress the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “dress” in: all accents · British English (242 clips)
“dress” in real sentences — American speakers
718 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Natalya designed this dress, Chelsea designed that dress.
The Obama White House
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Your dress, for one thing.
State Department
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Not cuff-link, dress-stud.
Census Bureau
Words that sound like “dress”
Words one sound away from dress — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “dress”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dress. 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.