How to pronounce wept in American English
“wept” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to wept the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“wept” in real sentences — American speakers
26 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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I was telling Alicia that I saw this movie this summer and I wept, like I
The Obama White House
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my father wept in tears on my graduation day and in Korean he said
US National Archives
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to us on Christmas Eve, even the steely-eyed flight directors in mission control wept.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “wept”
Words one sound away from wept — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wept. 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.