How to pronounce tightness in British English
“tightness” pronunciation by British speakers
Listen to tightness the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “tightness” in: all accents · American English (168 clips)
“tightness” in real sentences — British speakers
48 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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and water tightness for example
The Scottish Parliament
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I re-emphasise the tightness of time.
The Scottish Parliament
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So, they have come off, but that tightness was literally down to good machining.
UK Parliament
Words that sound like “tightness”
Words one sound away from tightness — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “tightness”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tightness. 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.