How to pronounce rapids
Listen to rapids in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“rapids” in real sentences
137 clips in the index · 91 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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for Whitewater Rapids section.
US Forest Service · hear it here
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into fast-moving rapids on the weekend.
CBC News · hear it here
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This cosmic stream is like celestial rapids.
TED · hear it here
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driving from Pittsburg to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
FEMA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rapids. 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.