Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with mikes below are plain text.

How to pronounce mikes

“mikes” pronunciation in American English

Listen to mikes in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

“mikes” in real sentences

68 clips in the index · 12 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. We got Buck and six Mikes.

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  2. TWO MIKES OUT THERE AT THE SAME TIME.

    NASA

  3. A reminder: We no longer use handheld mikes.

    State Department

  4. We had two Mikes out there at the same time.

    Smithsonian Air & Space

Words that sound like “mikes”

Words one sound away from mikes — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of mikes. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with M →