How to pronounce eighty in American English
“eighty” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to eighty the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “eighty” in: all accents · British English (149 clips)
“eighty” in real sentences — American speakers
463 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Geena Rocero: Eighty-nine.
The Obama White House
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Eighty to eighty-five percent of law enforcement to have fewer than fifty officers.
Dept of Justice
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QUESTION: Nineteen eighty, seventy-nine?
State Department
Words that sound like “eighty”
Words one sound away from eighty — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “eighty”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of eighty. 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.