How to pronounce yard in American English
“yard” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to yard the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“yard” in real sentences — American speakers
813 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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A yard is a yard is a yard.
CDC
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troop as they fought, yard by yard.
The Obama White House
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And so we decided we give up at the ten yard to ten yard, yard line.
Smithsonian Air & Space
Words that sound like “yard”
Words one sound away from yard — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “yard”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yard. 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.