How to pronounce stray in American English
“stray” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to stray the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “stray” in: all accents · British English (219 clips)
“stray” in real sentences — American speakers
85 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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With a stray calibration correction.
NIST
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If the pilot allowed his attention to stray for even an instant, the spirit would stray
Smithsonian Air & Space
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riddled, not shot with a stray bullet, riddled.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “stray”
Words one sound away from stray — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “stray”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of stray. 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.