How to pronounce rife in American English
“rife” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rife the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “rife” in: all accents · British English (85 clips)
“rife” in real sentences — American speakers
36 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
political instability is rife.
State Department
-
suspect that when I announce that executive action, it will be rife with detail.
The Obama White House
-
you know rife with examples where you anonymized one data set somebody else anonymized a second
FTC
Words that sound like “rife”
Words one sound away from rife — 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 rife. 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.