Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with regret below are plain text.

How to pronounce regret in American English

“regret” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to regret the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“regret” in real sentences — American speakers

721 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. So it’s just – it’s like regret on top of regret.

    State Department

  2. With considerable regret, I accepted.

    The Obama White House

  3. a low-regret decision we're making."

    Federal Reserve

Words that sound like “regret”

Words one sound away from regret — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “regret”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of regret. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with R →