How to pronounce readable in American English
“readable” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to readable the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “readable” in: all accents · British English (38 clips)
“readable” 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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Basically it is eye-readable versus machine-readable.
National Archives
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machine-readable CSV files.
Census Bureau
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all 508 acceptable, or readable?
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “readable”
Words one sound away from readable — 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 readable. 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.