How to pronounce rain in American English
“rain” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rain the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “rain” in: all accents · British English (386 clips)
“rain” 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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so we don't measure rain we couldn't measure rain we're not sensitive to rain um there's
NASA
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ponchos and rain jackets.
CDC
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Aretha Franklin: ♪ Purple rain ♪
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “rain”
Words one sound away from rain — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “rain”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rain. 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.