How to pronounce smell in American English
“smell” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to smell the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “smell” in: all accents · British English (96 clips)
“smell” in real sentences — American speakers
827 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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(Students in crowd) Smell (Instructor 1) Smell.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
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DON'T SMELL LETTUCE, YOU SMELL LEMONS AND ORANGES.
NASA
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turn away when you see that smell or when you smell that smell at that stage
NSF
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.