How to pronounce sofa in American English
“sofa” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sofa the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “sofa” in: all accents · British English (93 clips)
“sofa” in real sentences — American speakers
74 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Then we go to the sofa, and these were again where it's hotel...
NIST
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It is funny, though -- I was looking -- you can buy a sofa, chocolate chip
The Obama White House
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the sitting room where we had sat, and there was the sofa that I had sat
National Archives
Words that sound like “sofa”
Words one sound away from sofa — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “sofa”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sofa. 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.