How to pronounce kill in American English
“kill” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to kill the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “kill” in: all accents · British English (744 clips)
“kill” 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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military to kill people who are trying to kill Americans.
The Obama White House
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South African politicians, repeating things like kill the Boer, kill the Afrikaner.
State Department
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effectively kill a request.
National Archives
Words that sound like “kill”
Words one sound away from kill — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “kill”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of kill. 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.