How to pronounce rail in American English
“rail” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rail the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“rail” 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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rail transportation corridor – shipping and rail – will – QUESTION: Okay, where’s the rail part?
State Department
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here's another rail here straddling that southbound rail that that southern Rail and the and
NTSB
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Girder rail, which is the rail the street cars and light rail run on, is not
NIST
Words that sound like “rail”
Words one sound away from rail — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “rail”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rail. 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.