How to pronounce yellow in American English
“yellow” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to yellow the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“yellow” 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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Malia Obama: "Yellow duck, yellow duck, what do you see?"
The Obama White House
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Yellow wildflowers bloom.
National Park Service
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Yellow is for reactivity.
USGS
Words that sound like “yellow”
Words one sound away from yellow — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “yellow”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of yellow. 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.