How to pronounce guard in American English
“guard” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to guard the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “guard” in: all accents · British English (541 clips)
“guard” 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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The Coast Guard is actually not part of the National Guard.
State Department
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They guard the past. They constantly guard the past and they
NIST
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Coast Guard approved courses.
Federal Reserve
Words that sound like “guard”
Words one sound away from guard — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “guard”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of guard. 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.