How to pronounce “wind”
“wind” is said two ways
/wɪnd/
wind
Moving air. Short i, as in tin.
/waɪnd/
wynd
To turn or coil. Rhymes with find.
Listen for the vowel, not the letters
The spelling never moves; the sounds inside it do. Practise the two back to back, so your mouth stops defaulting to whichever one you learnt first.Both forms live in one sentence here: “Wind the clock before the wind picks up again.”Each button plays a short phrase rather than the bare word: the model voice takes its stress from the words around it, so asking it for “wind” on its own would play one reading twice instead of the noun and the verb. Read the transcription as you listen.
Say “wind” in one beat
wind
/wɪnd/
Everything in this card describes the noun form. As a verb it is /waɪnd/.
The voice you hear here is American; a British voice is available in the app's settings.
- windwɪnd
- IPA (American)
- /wɪnd/
- IPA (British)
- /wɪnd/
- Respelling
- wind (noun) · wynd (verb)
- Syllables
- 1 — wind
- Stress
- One syllable, so the whole word carries the beat — say /wɪnd/ in one unbroken piece rather than clipping the vowel.
- Part of speech
- noun, verb
- Difficulty
- Beginner — most learners get this on the first take
Where “wind” goes wrong
- Often heard
“wynd from the north”
the weather is wind with a short i; wynd means to turn
What “wind” means
- noun
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
“trees bent under the fierce winds”
- noun
a tendency or force that influences events
“the winds of change”
- noun
breath
“the collision knocked the wind out of him”
Say it in a sentence
“Wind the clock before the wind picks up again.”“wind”, answered
How do you pronounce “wind”?
“wind” has two pronunciations: /wɪnd/ as a noun and /waɪnd/ as a verb — the part of speech decides which. The spelling never changes; the sounds inside it do, and nothing on the page tells you which one a sentence wants. The transcription and syllable breakdown below describe the noun form. It is one unbroken piece — /wɪnd/ — with no pause anywhere inside it.
How many syllables does “wind” have?
One, despite the 1 vowel letters in the spelling. The whole word is /wɪnd/ — a single beat.
Which pronunciation of “wind” is correct?
Both are. /wɪnd/ (wind) as a noun; /waɪnd/ (wynd) as a verb. Nothing about the spelling tells you which — the sentence does, and the two are as different as any two words. Both appear here: “Wind the clock before the wind picks up again.”
What does “wind” mean?
As a noun: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure For example: “trees bent under the fierce winds” It carries 2 other senses as well — all of them said the same way.
Where is the stress in “wind”?
One syllable, so the whole word carries the beat — say /wɪnd/ in one unbroken piece rather than clipping the vowel.
Now say “wind” and see every sound
Record it once and sayit lines your audio up against the target sound by sound — what landed, what slipped, and what it sounded like instead.