How to pronounce lightly in American English
“lightly” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to lightly the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “lightly” in: all accents · British English (492 clips)
“lightly” in real sentences — American speakers
415 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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agencies take this lightly.
The Obama White House
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Cortez lightly touched on this.
NIH
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a step that we took lightly.
State Department
Words that sound like “lightly”
Words one sound away from lightly — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “lightly”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lightly. 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.