How to pronounce tenor in American English
“tenor” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to tenor the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “tenor” in: all accents · British English (106 clips)
“tenor” in real sentences — American speakers
137 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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economy, but the tenor of this conversation certainly seems preferable to the tenor of those conversations
The Obama White House
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They don't have the tenor.
Federal Reserve
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changed the tenor of the war drastically.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “tenor”
Words one sound away from tenor — 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 tenor. 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.