How to pronounce planes in American English
“planes” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to planes the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “planes” in: all accents · British English (245 clips)
“planes” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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were water planes that were sea planes.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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delivery of those planes.
State Department
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in the event that our planes and their planes might be occupying similar space
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “planes”
Words one sound away from planes — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “planes”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of planes. 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.