Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with rubs below are plain text.
How to pronounce rubs in American English
“rubs” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to rubs the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “rubs” in: all accents
“rubs” in real sentences — American speakers
34 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
The Press: We hope it rubs off on Mr.
The Obama White House
-
the doorknob then touches their mouth or nose or rubs their eyes.
CDC
-
The guy goes like this, [MIMICS SMOKING] takes a cigarette, rubs it out on the side
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “rubs”
Words one sound away from rubs — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “rubs”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rubs. 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.