How to pronounce lights in American English
“lights” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to lights the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “lights” in: all accents · British English (646 clips)
“lights” 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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It was lit up quite a bit with with white lights, red lights, green lights.
NTSB
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Altitude-velocity lights.
NASA
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under very bright lights.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “lights”
Words one sound away from lights — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “lights”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lights. 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.