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

How to pronounce pit in American English

“pit” pronunciation by American speakers

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

“pit” in real sentences — American speakers

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

  1. the "gravel pit" tonight.

    The Obama White House

  2. to PIT tag juvenile salmon.

    US Fish & Wildlife Service

  3. at Incirlik and did a hot pit – we call it a hot pit refueling, where

    State Department

Words that sound like “pit”

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

Other forms of “pit”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pit. 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 →