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

How to pronounce pales in American English

“pales” pronunciation by American speakers

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

“pales” in real sentences — American speakers

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

  1. David Frank: You know, pales and compare.

    NIH

  2. the region in Gaza pales Ians say that despite the large scale destruction they have no

    Voice of America

  3. Um but it pales in comparison not just to the opportunity costs that Marty talked about,

    FTC

Words that sound like “pales”

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

Other forms of “pales”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pales. 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 P →