How to pronounce rival in American English
“rival” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rival the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “rival” in: all accents · British English (76 clips)
“rival” in real sentences — American speakers
343 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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They’re from rival gangs.
Dept of Justice
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a rival whether in preventing a rival from collecting data amounts to exclusionary conduct in any
FTC
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Our arch rival was Booker T.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “rival”
Words one sound away from rival — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “rival”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rival. 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.