Tongue twisters help you improve your English pronunciation and fluency.
In the list below is a summary of all the hard and easy tongue twisters we'll cover in this lesson. I've organized them alphabetically so you can quickly find the sounds you need help practicing.
I've also attached pronunciation audio clips. If you want to practice these tongue twisters for free online, read to the end to see how you can start speaking with other students and teachers within 2 minutes.
Tongue twisters in English
| Practice |
Tongue Twister |
| B |
Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades
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| B |
Blunderbusses bludgeons balancing them badly.
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| B |
The big black bug bit the big black bear,
but the big black bear bit the big black bug back!
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| C |
Can you can a canned can into an uncanned
can like a canner can can a canned can into an uncanned can?
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| Ch |
Chester cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese If the chunk
of cheese chunked Chester cheetah, What would Chester cheetah chew and chunk on?
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| CL |
How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
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| D |
Denise sees the fleece, Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze and feed and freeze the fleas.
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| D |
How much dew does a dewdrop drop If dewdrops do drop dew?
They do drop, they do As do dewdrops drop If dewdrops do drop dew.
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| D |
When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being
doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
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| F |
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
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| F |
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?
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| F |
Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt,
when first I felt that felt hat's felt.
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| Fluency |
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker!
Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don’t eat with your mouth full!
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| Fluency |
I've got a date at a quarter to eight; I'll see you at the gate , so don't be late.
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| Fluency |
One-One was a racehorse. Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race, Two-Two won one, too.
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| Fluency |
If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
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| Fluency |
What noise annoys an oyster most? A noisy noise annoys an oyster most.
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| G |
As he gobbled the cakes on his plate, the greedy ape said as he ate,
the greener green grapes are, the keener keen apes are to gobble green grape cakes, they’re great!
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| I |
Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
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| P |
Pad kid poured curd pulled cold
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| P |
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
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| P |
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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| P |
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
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| S |
You scream, you scream, We all scream for ice cream.
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| S |
She sells seashells by the seashore, The shells she sells are seashells,
I’m sure. So if she sells seashells on the seashore, Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
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| T |
A tutor who tooted the flute Tried to teach two young tooters to toot;
Said the two to the tutor, Is it harder to toot, or To tutor two tooters to toot?
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| Th |
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought.
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| U |
If you understand, say “understand”. if you don’t understand, say “don’t understand”.
but if you understand and say “don’t understand”. how do I understand that you understand? understand!
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| W |
I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes,
I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.
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| W |
Why do you cry, Willy? Why do you cry? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why, Willy? Why?
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| W |
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck,‘he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as‘much wood as a woodchuck would ifa woodchuck‘could chuck wood.
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| W |
Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watch which Swatch watch?
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| W |
Whether the weather be fine, Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold, Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not!
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| W |
While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash
Washington's windows with warm washing water.
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The table of 34 tongue twisters above were taken from these tongue twister lessons created by English teachers on Hilokal.
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