How to pronounce escalator in American English
“escalator” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to escalator the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “escalator” in: all accents · British English (41 clips)
“escalator” in real sentences — American speakers
28 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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So, it's not a skip hoist, escalator.
Census Bureau
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So like use of an elevator, escalator, doors, that kind of thing?
CDC
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together they navigate their way up the escalator to the subway platform
Dept of Justice
Words that sound like “escalator”
Words one sound away from escalator — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “escalator”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of escalator. 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.