How to pronounce hair in American English
“hair” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to hair the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “hair” in: all accents · British English (363 clips)
“hair” 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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hair cell and hair cell system function.
NIH
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like his hair cut, the guy with the spiky hair right there.
The Obama White House
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girl, a boy from Afghanistan, from Jamaica. If I have Black hair, blue hair.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “hair”
Words one sound away from hair — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “hair”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hair. 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.