How to pronounce fortune in American English
“fortune” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to fortune the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “fortune” in: all accents · British English (325 clips)
“fortune” in real sentences — American speakers
592 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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various Fortune 50 companies.
The Obama White House
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a pursuit than with fortune.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
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You could make a fortune smuggling stuff into the South and an even bigger fortune, like
National Archives
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.