How to pronounce surgical in American English
“surgical” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to surgical the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“surgical” in real sentences — American speakers
604 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Autonomous surgical robots.
NSF
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particularly elective surgical care.
CDC
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not like a surgical procedure.
NIH
Words that sound like “surgical”
Words one sound away from surgical — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “surgical”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of surgical. 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.