How to pronounce fortune in British English
“fortune” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to fortune the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “fortune” in: all accents · American English (592 clips)
“fortune” in real sentences — British speakers
325 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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unscrupulously sold for a fortune.
The Scottish Parliament
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And Alice had the fortune, and it really was a fortune, to go to the grammar
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “fortune”
Words one sound away from fortune — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “fortune”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of fortune. 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.