Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with hover below are plain text.

How to pronounce hover in American English

“hover” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to hover the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“hover” in real sentences — American speakers

540 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. helicopter in a slow hover taxi or stationary hover.

    FAA

  2. Hover over Dataset Discovery, then hover over VIIRS and click on the VIIRS Products Table.

    USGS

  3. If I hover on one side, it displays that same hover information on the other side.

    CDC

Words that sound like “hover”

Words one sound away from hover — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “hover”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hover. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with H →