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How to pronounce stairs in American English
“stairs” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to stairs the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “stairs” in: all accents · British English (126 clips)
“stairs” in real sentences — American speakers
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stairs to the front door.
NIST
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the deck, support or stairs.
FEMA
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There are a set of stairs below each of those, so walk down those stairs, exit
NTSB
Words that sound like “stairs”
Words one sound away from stairs — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “stairs”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of stairs. 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.