How to pronounce ten in American English
“ten” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to ten the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“ten” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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2010, ten questions, ten minutes.
Census Bureau
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workers at least ten-ten an hour.
The Obama White House
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BALLOON, SECOND TEN BALLOONS AND THIRD TEN BALLOONS.
NIH
Words that sound like “ten”
Words one sound away from ten — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “ten”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ten. 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.