How to pronounce ish in American English
“ish” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to ish the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “ish” in: all accents · British English (52 clips)
“ish” in real sentences — American speakers
212 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Yara Shahidi from “Black-ish”.
Dept of Justice
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billion-ish, so $3 billion.
The Obama White House
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It's greenish, glow-ish thing.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “ish”
Words one sound away from ish — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ish. 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.