How to pronounce knocking in American English
“knocking” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to knocking the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “knocking” in: all accents · British English (221 clips)
“knocking” in real sentences — American speakers
302 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the police would come knocking.
Dept of Justice
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They are knocking down regulations.
U.S. Army
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I didn't want people knocking.
CDC
Words that sound like “knocking”
Words one sound away from knocking — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “knocking”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of knocking. 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.