How to pronounce slate in American English
“slate” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to slate the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “slate” in: all accents · British English (121 clips)
“slate” in real sentences — American speakers
217 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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children are a blank slate.
Dept of Justice
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slate wiped clean every PY.
Dept of Labor
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So we have that clean slate.
Census Bureau
Words that sound like “slate”
Words one sound away from slate — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “slate”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of slate. 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.