How to pronounce shovel in American English
“shovel” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to shovel the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “shovel” in: all accents · British English (93 clips)
“shovel” in real sentences — American speakers
150 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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required -- The Press: Shovel?
The Obama White House
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business end of a shovel.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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And we started shopping around that shovel-ready plan.
CDC
Words that sound like “shovel”
Words one sound away from shovel — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “shovel”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shovel. 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.