How to pronounce weights in American English
“weights” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to weights the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“weights” 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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indicators, the weights, and the replicate weights.
Census Bureau
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Bean bags filled with copper shot, various drapery weights and weights originally used for sewing applications
National Archives
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But which weights and which measures?
NIST
Words that sound like “weights”
Words one sound away from weights — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “weights”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of weights. 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.