How to pronounce spans in American English
“spans” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to spans the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “spans” in: all accents · British English (133 clips)
“spans” in real sentences — American speakers
452 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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So this is an issue that spans geography, spans demographics.
The Obama White House
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four bridge spans each of those bridge spans is 160 feet long
NTSB
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Organic spans are critical.
USDA
Words that sound like “spans”
Words one sound away from spans — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “spans”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of spans. 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.