How to pronounce seventeen in American English
“seventeen” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to seventeen the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “seventeen” in: all accents · British English (42 clips)
“seventeen” in real sentences — American speakers
257 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Seventeen are awaiting execution.
State Department
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seventeen point five billion rows of data.
NIH
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They opened the plant seventeen days after Katrina.
FEMA
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.