How to pronounce queens in American English
“queens” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to queens the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “queens” in: all accents · British English (109 clips)
“queens” in real sentences — American speakers
181 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Queens is 58% foreign born.
Census Bureau
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Queens as she calls them.
The Obama White House
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was Horace Harding Expressway in Queens.
NIST
Words that sound like “queens”
Words one sound away from queens — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “queens”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of queens. 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.