How to pronounce smell in British English
“smell” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to smell the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “smell” in: all accents · American English (827 clips)
“smell” in real sentences — British speakers
96 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the putrid smell of damp.
The Scottish Parliament
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I love the smell of it, when I get those files out, they just smell wonderful.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “smell”
Words one sound away from smell — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “smell”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of smell. 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.