How to pronounce theater in American English
“theater” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to theater the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “theater” in: all accents · British English (431 clips)
“theater” 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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at the Howard Theater, the Royal Theater, the Regal Theater.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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Because it's not theater, theater.
National Archives
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Shakespeare's Globe Theater.
The Obama White House
Words that sound like “theater”
Words one sound away from theater — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “theater”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of theater. 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.