How to pronounce pavement in American English
“pavement” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to pavement the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “pavement” in: all accents · British English (266 clips)
“pavement” in real sentences — American speakers
483 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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pavement treating the rigid pavement as a stabilized base.
FAA
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They're pounding the pavement.
The Obama White House
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off the median went off the pavement went through the median and then entered the pavement
NTSB
Words that sound like “pavement”
Words one sound away from pavement — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “pavement”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pavement. 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.