How to pronounce five in American English
“five” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to five the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“five” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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then they go to five or five to six.
CDC
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four and five, sorry, yeah, item four and five.
US National Archives
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not that country, or these five and not those five?
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “five”
Words one sound away from five — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “five”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of five. 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.