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

How to pronounce muscles in British English

“muscles” pronunciation by British speakers

Listen to muscles the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“muscles” in real sentences — British speakers

58 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. Government to flex its muscles in Scotland’s democracy.

    The Scottish Parliament

  2. keep our muscles strong and keep us well as we go into old age.

    The Scottish Parliament

  3. >> Mr Speaker: Members are exercising their knee muscles and there is no harm in that.

    UK Parliament

Words that sound like “muscles”

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

Other forms of “muscles”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of muscles. 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 →