How to pronounce spare in American English
“spare” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to spare the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “spare” in: all accents · British English (454 clips)
“spare” in real sentences — American speakers
853 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Maintenance repair and operations, that's spare parts, that's filters, spare, you know, spare parts for heating
The Obama White House
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technology and spare parts.
State Department
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Just not enough spare parts.
GAO
Words that sound like “spare”
Words one sound away from spare — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “spare”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of spare. 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.