How to pronounce scratch in American English
“scratch” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to scratch the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “scratch” in: all accents · British English (404 clips)
“scratch” in real sentences — American speakers
664 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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something up from scratch.
US National Archives
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scratch is some ways, so.
The Obama White House
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new phylogenetic tree from scratch.
CDC
Words that sound like “scratch”
Words one sound away from scratch — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “scratch”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of scratch. 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.