How to pronounce slept in American English
“slept” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to slept the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “slept” in: all accents · British English (42 clips)
“slept” in real sentences — American speakers
221 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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was reinforced while they slept.
NSF
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flight and slept through it.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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And you slept under mosquito netting.
State Department
Words that sound like “slept”
Words one sound away from slept — 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 slept. 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.