How to pronounce wishful in American English
“wishful” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to wishful the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “wishful” in: all accents · British English (78 clips)
“wishful” in real sentences — American speakers
53 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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call kind of false choices and maybe wishful thinking – is probably – “wishful thinking” is
State Department
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Well, that's wishful thinking."
The Obama White House
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by others as wishful thinking.
US Fish & Wildlife Service
Words that sound like “wishful”
Words one sound away from wishful — 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 wishful. 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.