How to pronounce rotten in American English
“rotten” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rotten the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “rotten” in: all accents · British English (167 clips)
“rotten” in real sentences — American speakers
52 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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it smells like rotten eggs.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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of rotten eggs yes rotten eggs yeah uh and again just because it Bears repeating what
NTSB
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All right, now it says screen rotten.
NIH
Words that sound like “rotten”
Words one sound away from rotten — 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 rotten. 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.