Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with soot below are plain text.

How to pronounce soot in American English

“soot” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to soot the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“soot” in real sentences — American speakers

84 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. black soot remains heavy black soot, but the energy is in that soot, the high temperature

    NIST

  2. soot on it when cleaning.

    USGS

  3. OVER THE HORIZON IS THIS BROWNISH SOOT OVER HERE SEE THIS KIND OF BROWNISH SOOT.

    NASA

Words that sound like “soot”

Words one sound away from soot — 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 soot. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with S →