How to pronounce wake
Listen to wake in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“wake” in real sentences
874 clips in the index · 466 American · 408 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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Wake Forest School of Medicine, Atrium Health, Wake Forest Baptist.
CDC · watch from 2:49 · hear it here
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We've had wake-up call after wake-up call on this issue.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 123:44 · hear it here
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the wake or turbulence an aircraft creates and its reaction to the wake of
FAA · watch from 5:22 · hear it here
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[MUSIC] [NOISE] Rebecca, wake up.
NIST · watch from 0:11 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wake. 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.