The Top 101 Mispronounced Words by Learners of English | Intermediate and Advanced Common Mistakes

After six months' research I've put together the 101 most common pronunciation mistakes. In this video you'll learn how to pronounce them correctly (with a British accent). I'll give you the correct pronunciation and, if the word is particularly difficult I'll give you a trick on how to say it. We have many more English pronunciation videos on this channel. Check them out.
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ERRATUM: As you know I edit while I'm running. The pressure to meet deadlines led to quite a few (small) errors on the video particularly the IPA. Also number 71 "throughout" - says 'months'. Obviously it's not. I hope they don't spoil your enjoyment.

[@soundscape26]

Small mistakes that don't detract at all from the video. The entry for Knead (52) also reads "Need" in the corner. No problem.

[@dpakmagar9722]

Not at all, Gideon. Really useful lesson.Thanks for everything.

[@evanioviana2630]

It was a spiffing class. Nothing can diminish this

[@nehalhany4426]

Never mind. This was really helpful and insightful. I usually consider myself an advanced learner of English but still missed some :D Thanks a lot :)

[@xstorm44x]

They don't, thanks for your work

[@Michal.Kaminski]

Hello, in my opinion this is currently the best English teaching youtube channel. Thanks and keep sharing good lessons! :)

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

I THOROUGHLY enjoy these lessons. I love language and I love the differences between the mother tongue (a.k.a The Queen's English) and American English.

[@raulgalets]

agreed. I've been studying english for around 12 years and I have considered myself to be quite fluent by now, but this channel makes me reconsider that every time

[@mohamedbelalia6202]

Without any doubt, not only the best KZbin channel for learning English but he is the best teacher.

[@arajalali]

I would've added gauge to that list.

[@englishwithanerudite]

Dear Gideon, having been an English teacher for years myself, I enjoy your lessons a lot, I really do. I especially appreciate your sense of humour and the occasional subtext ;-)

[@diomortoesepolto]

Sir Gideon the all knowing

[@vpougy]

This is a fantastic video and extremely useful. Sent it to my students and they were all very grateful - and it lead to some very productive class discussions. You can see that you put a lot of time and effort into these videos, and I wanted to make it known how well appreciated it is. A great resource.

[@partialintegral]

I would also add "archive" and "folk" to the series.

[@hellofromdavid]

I notice, even with a lot of professional broadcasters, that speakers often put an "egg" in _integral_ -- rather than say IN-ti-grill. I find this grates on my sensitive ears. They say in-TEG-grill.

[@Lennythewinner]

A foreign learner of English walked past a cinema when the film version of a certain Agatha Christie novel had recently become a box office hit, only to spot a notice board reading "Murder on the Orient Express pronounced success", upon which he burst into tears.

[@albertodf1234]

One of the best and most useful videos around. Thanks!

[@smilingdalia111]

Gideon, thank you for your clear explanations of the pronunciation of this practical list of words.

[@giulianamit]

There are many words that I have never heard before here, not just for mispronunciation! Sentences with collocation are perfect for understanding their meaning and studying it later to learn and remember. Thank you very much

[@elisabettaviazzarin3107]

Quite shocked about the pronunciation of AREN'T!!! I ve always pronounced the R!! Thanks for this precious video!!

[@ericbarlow6772]

The R is pronounced in my American English accent. It's closer to ARNT so it's still one syllable. Aunt is pronounced like ant (the insect).

[@angreagach]

@@ericbarlow6772 Also mine. Like many, if not most, Americans, I pronounce it in two syllables and will continue to do so.

[@letMeSayThatInIrish]

This was a real ear-opener. I had some 26 bad mistakes. I was most surprised to hear "loosen" had such a short vowel. I had to check other sources to verify Gideon was not pulling my leg. Also the silent t in hasten, moisten, and soften. Who knew?

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad you liked the video. Why would I pull your leg?

[@dinkster1729]

Some people do say, "of ten" pronouncing the "t" in Canada. I say, "of fen" though.

[@alexvaleri6040]

Thank a million, you actually have opened new horizons for me!

[@hortensiafracalanza281]

Very, very useful video! I’ll watch it again to make sure I won’t commit any of such mistakes from now on. Thank you for sharing!

[@laurajamil8943]

Brilliant! Well done( I love your humour💕) and extremely useful! Thank you very much, sir!

[@Porcelanix]

A very good video. I'm extremely grateful. Don't worry about a few errors. Keep up the good work! Thank you, Gideon!

[@user-xr9wm3ji3v]

Very helpful. Thanks a lot.

[@internations6272]

Excellent as usual. Thanks.

[@vesper9547]

Thanks for the video... You are the best teacher.

[@TpoTuJIJIo]

oh, many thanks 👍! This is so helpful! I'm going to write something down.

[@vanewfies]

Excellent and extremely useful video. Thank you so much. You are a great teacher ineed!

[@PM-yz8fx]

This will take a while...wrong pronunciation is so hard to get it out your head :). Much needed video, thanks a lot!

[@harris4941]

Thanks for this! My first language is English, yet I still mispronounce some of them 😆

[@enigmaster84]

This is what surprises me in English: I'm Italian, and our spelling is quite phonetic so with a few rules you know how to write or read a word (with few exceptions, but those are expected in everything I guess), except maybe on where to put the stress in them. On the other hand, in English, one may not know how a word is written or pronounce unless you have both heard it and read it: sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's frustrating, especially once you find out you've always mispronounced a word or didn't realise that's how you write a word you are familiar with 😅

[@ericbarlow6772]

@@enigmaster84 it's kind of phonetic if you understand the history of English. The spelling of words tends to be conservative and 'locked' in when it was first used in written form. 'QU' in Norman French was pronounced as a KW so quick and quit are pronounced using that form. Later words which were borrowed from French have the K pronunciation such as cheque. (It's a British form of spelling but it gets the job done.) What has definitely helped me is learning some Greek, Latin, French and German as a native English speaker. if you have a grasp on where the word came from, you can guess correctly most of the time.

[@enigmaster84]

@@ericbarlow6772 Even though I see what you're trying to explain, English spelling as a whole could never qualify as phonetic, not even "kind of": it's a collection of different spellings ("core" English for a lack of a better term, French, Latin, Greek, etc), and knowing these sets of rules helps in safely guessing, but still there are too many exceptions, hence the need to have this kind of videos. Just to make a few examples, how can someone safely guess that the O in women is pronounced as an "e", when an I is "ee" and when it's "eye", that the H in heir is silent and so on? Not to mention historical names which have their own set of "no-rules" (Greenwitch != green witch), but I can understand that. Given that there are varying degrees of phonetic spellings, let's say as a general rule, that for every letter or group of letters there is only one possible sound. I'll use Italian as example as it's my first language and therefore the one I'm more familiar with: CH always sounds like K in Italian words, so you don't need to guess if it sounds like in chaos or like in Charlie: it's K, full stop. Fs sound as F, I don't need to fear they sound otherwise or be silent (I picked a random letter). In Italian there really is no need to know the origin of a word, apply the spelling rules and you know how to write it once you hear it and how to pronounce it once you read it. Also, I don't know if that's just in American films, but no spelling contests here. They would take too long to have a winner ;p

[@90janmlyn]

@@enigmaster84 I see one example, which kinda shows what was meant by the phonetic statement. We can read "Lead" in two ways, which results in two different meanings, but spelling remains the same. Lets say, In Czech language, the one word could have different meanings too, but there would have to be difference in spelling to read it differently, otherwise the pronunciation of the word would be exactly the same regardless how many meanings it can have.

[@dinkster1729]

@@ericbarlow6772 Ancient Greek, I imagine, you mean. @Eric Barlow Spanish also helps for a lot of American place names. Italian helps for musical terms.

[@nataliapanta9885]

I just adore you! Thank you so much, I was doing so many mistakes in pronunciation, I can't believe this.😃

[@katos4942]

your channel is my fav one on youtube amongst English teachers, thank you for your job and sense of humor!

[@bijaybudha9336]

Thank you very much Gideon for starting New Year with amazing pronunciation video. Your effort is really appreciative. You rock. 👍👍👍

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Your comment is much appreciated. Happy New Year

[@hydejekyll4099]

@@LetThemTalkTV thank you man you're helping me aswell and saving me time and troubles

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

@@LetThemTalkTV I must concur that this video is very much appreciated and I absolutely loved it and would love it if you not only did more like this but also a video explain WHY we pronounce things a certain way. As an example the word “Debt”. It has a silent b so first question is why is the b silent? And the 2nd question is why have the letter “b” in the word at all if its silent. That 2nd question could be applied to every instance of a silent letter being present. Thank you so much for each and every video you have posted to date. I have only recently found your channel so I’m burning the candle at both ends lol. I’m keeping up with your most recent videos and starting to watch all of your videos from the very first one you posted. I feel that between your channel and the English with Lucy channel I should be alright with a silent “l” in alright lol. Cheers

[@dinkster1729]

@@prepperjonpnw6482 I agree with you. An explanation for the silent letters and weird pronounciations would be nice, but, perhaps, people learning English in France these days don't study foreign languages like they used to so they wouldn't appreciate long-winded explanations for silent letters as they might have 50 or 100 years ago. Maybe, Gideon doesn't know the reason himself.

[@manjirabanerjee7169]

Very useful lesson indeed.Wish you were there to converse with from time to time ,Sir.

[@lelakhakhutaishvili7105]

Thanks a lot Mr Gideon.You are the best.Greetings from Georgia

[@romainbouillon4931]

Thank you! Very helpfull.

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I love LetThemTalkTV lessons! Every time I watch one of your videos I learn something new and valuable. Tnahk you a millon time=)))

[@abrahamcano6195]

Gideon, many thanks for the excellent video! Cheers

[@sebastiancrenshaw851]

This is really useful, thanks.

[@mariansiwczak4544]

Thank you for this video!

[@saintmichelarchange2094]

Thank you very much, I am delighted by your videos!!

[@arturmazur2149]

Fantastic lesson

[@MrWindermere123]

Stay mellow! I will, but one thing to add. I pronounce 'often' with a 't' sound: off-Ten. As a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in Turkey, a young student told me I was wrong because an earlier teacher had taught 'offen' as the correct pronunciation. Some words have two ways to pronounce them - you gave the example of either, but there's also scone, advertisement, schedule, financial and garage (also known as a garridge). English is never logical!

[@irenejohnston6802]

I say 'offen' and Ga'rarge Quite often! depends upon our age, education. Age 82 UK. The dreaded long A from USA gets everywhere eg. fat'ality Not FaYtality

[@marale72uk]

The best English teacher ever! :) Thanks Gideon!

[@luciapeter8796]

Thanks alot absolutely this video really helpful and interesting

[@BharathBhushan13]

Thanks so much for the compilation

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thank you for watching

[@maraismaurice3487]

Bravo ! Excellent.

[@rudolfblaha7701]

i love these 101... videos. they're realy informative. thank you

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thank you 101 times

[@shahriarkhalighi5447]

Great job. Thanks.

[@robertandrzejczyk]

Thank you for your job. This is cool. Keep your black note safe.

[@AmitKumarGehlot]

Thank you so much.

[@AndreaUK1973]

It’s so much better to hear them from you and not from “Google” ! You give us the correct stress tone! Perfect and very helpful! Crucial to improve our normal conversation! “Broken English” causes confusion and misinterpretation! That’s why I tend to email my “communications” instead of picking up the phone. But listening to you, I feel I can do it more frequently now! Thank you!

[@ericbarlow6772]

It also depends on which dialect of English you're talking about. For example artisan has a different stressed syllable depending on whether you're speaking British or American dialects.

[@dinkster1729]

@@ericbarlow6772 So does "accent". At least, in Canada, we put the stress on the first syllable, not the 2nd. Gideon says "accent" a lot, of course.

[@RogerRamos1993]

Finite: Fine night Infinite: Infinit Crazy language. Only hundreds of hours of input can make us learn its unpredictable pronunciations.

[@whukriede]

Except when it's the wisdom of the Deity they might pronounce it differently again.

[@chairtips]

Fine ite actually!

[@DadgeCity]

(input)

[@RogerRamos1993]

@@DadgeCity Thanks, my native Portuguese interfering. In Portuguese, before p or b, you'll ever write m, never n.

[@DadgeCity]

@@RogerRamos1993 it should really be imput in English, but you know how we love to use irregular spellings...

[@pejmanhemmati2172]

you are wonderful, many thanks.

[@shamiramrshtuni3440]

Thanks a lot !

[@W00PIE]

Thanks a lot! Very interesting to take the tour and test yourself

[@soniamayrink3295]

I love lessons on pronunciation. This one was extremelly helpful. I have problems with "albeit"..., albeit I'm determined to fix this.Happy Brand New Year, bunches of joyful and sweet moments...we need them more than ever. (Correct, please, sir)

[@apieceofinfo3378]

Thank you for your effort 😊 Really appreciate it

[@LetThemTalkTV]

appreciate your comment

[@HongNguyen-ve6wx]

Thank you so much for the video, Gideon! The one that shocks me most is "says". I have been mispronouncing this word for for all of those years, right in the beginning of my English learning process. After 28 years I now learn to speak "says" good and proper. I cannot thank you enough, Gideon!

[@Angie-rz3jb]

Great lesson as usual

[@dani_low]

Superb video Gideon! Thanks.

[@franciscoferrer2824]

Very helpful ! It is quite embarrassing to mispronounce common words when you have reached a certain level, thank you !

[@gerdrosser1038]

I "only" mispronounced 24 words. Actually I didn't even know six words... Thanks for your videos. They help me improving my English while having fun...

[@wilman.2802]

Thanks a lot! Finally someone who could guide me on how to pronounce "heir"!!😊❤

[@piotrz2282]

Superbly done! You realize how far you are from perfection :)

[@StuffMadeOnDreams]

Terrific list. I learned quite a lot here. I missed the word cousin, a headache for me years ago. Pronunciation is one of the most difficult aspects of English, as opposed to German pronunciation, which is very straightforward and regular.

[@Gabriel-gabriel]

thank you!!

[@user-vi2qr9bd9r]

Thank you very much! I did enjoy your video!

[@lorenasmartevents5354]

Awesome! Ty. So much for your effort and research in order to provide us English Learners with real and authentic ( and easy) learning techniques, vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, etc., etc. Ty do much! Greetings from Mexico. May you have a year full of Joy, (even more) Wisdom, and plenty of magnificent dreams. Plus a remakable and excellent Good Health! 👍 I enjoy your vids very much. (and learn a lot). 👏💯

[@LetThemTalkTV]

You are awesome! Many thanks

[@illianamaxwell]

Thankyou Looking forward to more videos like this

[@germanbenito8779]

Thank you so much for your videos

[@seanlaoch1678]

Oh, my gosh! This video is frightfully spiffing! Jolly good!

[@heavymetal1330]

Just love this Channel!

[@rickebuschcatherine2729]

Thank's Ihave to make a lot of progress here... even if it's catastrophic... so thanks a lot....

[@Bartas252]

As always, enjoyable!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

cheers

[@giannadallerive3830]

I'm italian, from an hamlet near Venezia. I'll give a report of my pronunciation mistakes next time ;-) For now, I only would tell you how much I enjoy your lessons, how very useful they are, and how much I appreciate your kindness, your pleasantness, your very nice way of teaching. Thank you Gideon! ("Beloved", "naked", "finite", "harbour", "indict"... here they are!)

[@gsjethidromasajesgo1834]

thanks for this lesson, i also learnt some new vocabulary! happy new year!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad to hear it

[@paulwilliamdixon3674]

There is also a shift in pronunciation from finite (figh-night) to infinite (inf'n-it)

[@diegoevrard-broquet8050]

You make incredibly precious content, I wish I had known about this in highschool

[@tyraxx4825]

Hello Gideon, your lessons are very very helpful and very much enjoyable. Already shared it with my friends... It's been a lot of fun to speak out loud all the words, just before you were giving the correct pronounciation of them... Well done! Very much appreciated!

[@user-eq7zs8bh2c]

Thanks 👍

[@user-qq5hd9wo9t]

Thanks a lot for this vidеo.

[@cristiandiazsandoval4957]

Muy buenos datos entregas en tu video, Gideon; muchas gracias!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

de nada. feliz año

[@okdok]

I simply love your videos

[@rizwanullah3775]

Thanks a lot Sir 👍👌👌 We need more videos like this Because we are nonnative and our pronunciations are very very weak.

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Why is “foul” not pronounced the same as “soul”? This is a good example of what I was alluding to in my other comment. I would like to know the reason for how and why some of these words are pronounced the way they are. In fact I believe it’s all of these words not just some of them lol that I would like you to explain why they are pronounced the way they are.

[@Rasscasse]

Because English is irregular and that’s just how it is I think. The same reasons as the following words are all pronounce differently, even though they end with the same four letters :- Rough Bough Through.

[@genevieverouet1340]

Great job ! Thank you very much.

[@LetThemTalkTV]

my pleasure

[@mariambajelidze8515]

Thanks🥰🥰 Fantastic video as always 🥰🥰🥰

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Fantastic comment as always

[@arshadshafaei6032]

Thanks for reminding the correct pronunciation of words you mentioned.

[@LetThemTalkTV]

you're welcome

[@cordasuenaviolin604]

I didn't realised that I was mispronouncing some of these words... Thank you very much!

[@wujeksmietanko]

A very useful video, albeit quite disheartening. I have always considered pronunciation the hardest part of learning English language...

[@alexandrefeitosa100]

Hello Gideon! Tu as raison. Les mots que tu as choisis sont hiper compliquées pour nous les étudiants. Merci de ton coup de main. Il été super util.

[@kh23797]

@Alex ... D'un autre côté, le genre en français, espagnol, allemand, russe - en fait, dans la plupart des autres langues - et la nécessité d'amender les adjectifs et les verbes pour s'accorder avec le genre, rend leur expression très difficile. Il n'y a pas de règles fiables. Mais en anglais, le genre suit la logique et n'est pas aléatoire. Chaque langue a ses pièges !

[@whukriede]

Today you got me twenty two times, quite good!

[@frfancha]

Gideon did it again! Another one to add to the top 10 of all youtube learning English video (with the 101 phrasal verbs, the 60 binomial, ...)

[@LetThemTalkTV]

You're very kind. Thanks

[@carlos68343]

Very good video, thanks for it.

[@hilalahmad7286]

Thanks!

[@piotrkorona9354]

I think I mispronounced like 7 or 8 of them. As a future English graduate, it's not bad I suppose ;)

[@fernandomilicich8160]

Thanks a lot about pronunciation, very useful. Greetings from Argentina.

[@roshangupta4842]

Gideon Sir 🙏you always teach us something new❤️. today I got this one the bloody "indict"

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad you learnt something. Best wishes

[@adrianagalli7504]

Great video, thanks

[@phoenixlighter2304]

I just love the way you pronounce 'howevah' :)

[@annahabanna]

Thank you

[@PestOnYT]

Wow! First video of you that has perfect audio levels! The music wan't blowing my speakers away. Anyways... Great video (though there are some top words of the screen words wrong).. I did a lot of mistakes. Will probably watch it multiple times. Thanks!

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Thanks for your comments. Glad you liked the video. Don't worry the incredibly loud rock music will be back soon.

[@yidoat]

Wow simply wonderful

[@kajbeuter9139]

Talking English for quite some years, though, it helped a lot especially with the official approval from a native speaker how to deal with "clothes" and "sixth" 🙂

[@LetThemTalkTV]

Glad you found it useful. sixth is particularly tricky and sixths is beyond crazy.

[@soundscape26]

I learnt the "close" trick for "clothes" a while ago. Handy.

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

Try pronouncing the word breakfasts.

[@timotheelegrincheux2204]

The difference in pronunciation between woman and women is not in the final syllable but rather in the first. Wimmin. Now I’ve told you all I know about women.

[@kajbeuter9139]

@@LetThemTalkTV yes, right. I loved the movie but I was always afraid to tell people about that movie because of its name: "The Sixth Sense"

[@barbanegra3365]

Very compact, very clean and so usefull lesson! Many thanks!!! (Hope, here I had no made any mistakes...))))