How to pronounce tick
Listen to tick in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“tick” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 352 American · 871 British · 72 Australian · 3 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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goes click, clock, click, clock, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
Big Think · hear it here
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on the airwaves it's the soundtrack is tick tick tick tick tick tick tick gets louder
cjmenet · hear it here
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They go 'tick, tick, tick'.
The Royal Society · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tick. 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.