How to pronounce wow
Listen to wow in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“wow” in real sentences
966 clips in the index · 810 American · 156 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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- [children together] Wow!
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 23:50 · hear it here
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[Overlapping voices] Wow.
NOAA · watch from 0:00 · hear it here
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Ashley Strickland: Oh, wow.
NSF · watch from 8:31 · hear it here
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>>SHERRI: Yup. >>MILES: Wow.
NIH · watch from 3:50 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of wow. 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.