How to pronounce ride in American English
“ride” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to ride the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “ride” in: all accents · British English (314 clips)
“ride” 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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Rider: Nice morning ride.
NIH
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Smoother ride, vacuum outside.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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Through starting to ride I wanted more people to ride bikes with me.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “ride”
Words one sound away from ride — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “ride”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ride. 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.