How to pronounce stir in American English
“stir” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to stir the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “stir” in: all accents · British English (122 clips)
“stir” in real sentences — American speakers
228 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Harder, faster, cause a stir.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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on water and then you stir it, there should be a stir in there, and you,
NIST
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to raise tensions and stir chaos.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “stir”
Words one sound away from stir — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “stir”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of stir. 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.