How to pronounce rocket
Listen to rocket in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“rocket” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 161 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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The SLS rocket is in fact America rocket.
NASA · watch from 1:15 · hear it here
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- You can make your own rocket using solid rocket fuel by joining a model rocket
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 1:56 · hear it here
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It is not rocket science.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 29:01 · hear it here
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Medicines, groceries, even rocket engines.
NIST · watch from 1:37 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rocket. 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.