How to pronounce lit in American English
“lit” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to lit the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “lit” in: all accents · British English (165 clips)
“lit” in real sentences — American speakers
512 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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spark that lit this fire.
U.S. Navy
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country to have Google come in and install fiber, our phones lit up, our televisions lit
The Obama White House
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lit up like they're luminescent.
NASA
Words that sound like “lit”
Words one sound away from lit — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “lit”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lit. 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.