How to pronounce waves in American English
“waves” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to waves the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “waves” in: all accents · British English (220 clips)
“waves” 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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radiation and radio waves, ultraviolet waves.
Smithsonian Air & Space
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feel the shock waves in the sound waves.
NASA
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Because in quantum, particles are waves and waves are particles.
NSF
Words that sound like “waves”
Words one sound away from waves — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “waves”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of waves. 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.