How to pronounce sunk in American English
“sunk” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sunk the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “sunk” in: all accents · British English (79 clips)
“sunk” in real sentences — American speakers
170 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And unfortunately they, it sunk after they sunk the Housatonic, the Union ship.
National Archives
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depravity to which Assad has sunk.
The Obama White House
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It was torpedoed and sunk near Italy in 1915.
US National Archives
Words that sound like “sunk”
Words one sound away from sunk — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sunk. 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.