How to pronounce items in American English
“items” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to items the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “items” in: all accents · British English (1,000+ clips)
“items” 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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items with the original items and slightly lower but reasonable internal consistency of those items.
Census Bureau
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other non reusable items.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
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those other agenda items?
Federal Reserve
Words that sound like “items”
Words one sound away from items — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “items”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of items. 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.