How to pronounce seventeen in British English
“seventeen” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to seventeen the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “seventeen” in: all accents · American English (257 clips)
“seventeen” in real sentences — British speakers
42 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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that there are seventeen thousand three hundred more doctors and over seventeen thousand more nurses on
UK Parliament
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Seventeen years on, the promise is broken and there is continued carnage.
The Scottish Parliament
Words that sound like “seventeen”
Words one sound away from seventeen — 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 seventeen. 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.