How to pronounce hail in American English
“hail” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to hail the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “hail” in: all accents · British English (34 clips)
“hail” in real sentences — American speakers
343 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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destroyed by softball sized hail.
USGS
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into a Project Hail Mary.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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♪ ("Hail to the Chief" plays) ♪
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “hail”
Words one sound away from hail — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “hail”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hail. 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.