How to pronounce prone in American English
“prone” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to prone the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “prone” in: all accents · British English (144 clips)
“prone” in real sentences — American speakers
416 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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epidemic-prone infectious diseases.
The Obama White House
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painful and failure-prone.
NIH
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very prone to earthquake activity.
USGS
Words that sound like “prone”
Words one sound away from prone — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of prone. 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.