How to pronounce smiling in American English
“smiling” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to smiling the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “smiling” in: all accents · British English (190 clips)
“smiling” in real sentences — American speakers
399 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Daphne smiling – that’s a good sign, but she’s always smiling.
State Department
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Speaker: They are smiling.
The Obama White House
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Fuller is actually smiling.
NTSB
Words that sound like “smiling”
Words one sound away from smiling — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “smiling”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of smiling. 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.