Tongue Twisters

Tongue twisters are fun phrases that can help you get better at saying tricky words. They're like puzzles for your mouth! Using tongue twisters can make you more skilled at saying words clearly. By practicing these challenging phrases, you can improve how you talk and sound more confident. It's a playful way to work on your pronunciation and have some fun with language. So, try out some tongue twisters and enjoy the playful side of improving how you speak!

Easy Tongue Twisters

Brave brigadiers.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /r/

Imaginary Menagerie.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /m/, /n/

Sick hicks.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /k/

Sick sheep.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /ʃ/

Specific Pacific.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /s/

Stupid Superstition.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /t/

Throne thieves.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /v/

Thundering horses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /h/

Clam in can.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /n/

Daddy Draws Doors.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /d/, /dr/

Eddie edited it.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɛd/, /d/

Eleven benevolent elephants.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɛl/, /v/

Flash message.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /fl/, /ʃ/

Fresh fried fish.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /fr/, /f/

She sees cheese.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Six sticky skeletons.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /st/

Snap crackle pop.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /sn/, /kr/, /p/

Three free throws.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /f/, /r/

Toast for saints.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /s/

Truly rural.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /tr/, /r/

Willie's really weary.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /r/

Willy's real rear-wheel.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /r/

Wish of wishes.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /ʃ/

Black back bat.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /k/

Black background, brown background.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /k/

Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /d/, /d/

Friendly fleas and fireflies.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /f/, /l/

I scream, you scream.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /skr/, /s/

Pre-shrunk silk shirts.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Really leery, rarely Larry.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /l/

Red lorry, yellow lorry.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /l/

Rolling red wagons.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /w/

Rubber baby buggy bumpers.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /b/

Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /z/

Thin sticks, thick bricks.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /b/

Thunder sunders thick sticks.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /s/

Common Tongue Twisters

A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /h/, /p/

A pessimistic pest exists among us.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /s/

Don't eat with your mouth full!

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ð/, /f/

Four fine fresh fish for you.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /f/, /ʃ/

Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /n/, /n/

One smart fellow, he felt smart.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /f/, /t/

Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /k/, /d/

She sells seashells on the seashore.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Sister Suzie's sewing socks for soldiers.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /z/

Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /sw/

So, this is the sushi chef.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /ʃ/

Sock for soldiers sister Suzie sews.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /z/

Spread it thicker, say it quicker!

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /sp/, /θ/

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /b/

Two smart fellows, they felt smart.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /f/

Two tried and true tridents.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /tr/

We all scream for ice cream.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /skr/, /s/

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /ʃ/

A snake sneaks to seek a snack.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /sn/

An orange oval spooks the odd operative.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɔ/, /v/

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɛk/, /ɛk/

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /tʃ/

I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /r/

Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /l/, /w/

Printed papers under pressure make pens prickle.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /pr/, /p/

The big bug bit the little beetle.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

The black bloke's back brake block broke.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /br/

The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /ʃ/

Three smart fellows, they all felt smart.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /f/

Wayne went to Wales to watch Walruses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /w/

A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /n/

Betty's big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

Creepy crawler critters crawl through creepy crawly craters.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /kr/, /k/

The poor boar pours batter over his putter.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /b/

We surely shall see the sun shine soon.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /j/, /b/

Chester cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʧ/, /ʧ/

Fred fed Ted bread, and Ted fed Fred bread.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /f/, /d/

I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /tʃ/

I thought I thought of thinking of thanking you.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /ð/

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /m/, /n/

Several spooky slimy spiders spun sulking by the sea.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /sp/

The winkle ship sank and the shrimp ship swam.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /sw/

Long Tongue Twisters

A big black bear sat on a big black rug.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /r/

A proper cup of coffee from a copper coffee pot.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /f/

An awful aardvark and an aching ape ate an antelope.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /æ/, /n/

Ghostly ghouls gather gleefully to golf on ghostly golf courses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɡ/

I scream you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /skr/, /s/

If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /z/

Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ɪ/, /n/

Professional Pumpkin Pickers are prone to pick the plumpest pumpkins.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /p/

Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /r/

Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /t/

Birdie birdie in the sky laid a turdie in my eye.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /d/

From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʧ/, /tʃ/

Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /k/

Transylvanian Tree Trimmers are trained to trim the tallest Transylvanian trees.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /t/, /t/

Biting babies ride battle toys while bumbling boys brave bald biting babies.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /br/

Give Papa a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee cup.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /p/

Horribly hoarse hoot owls hoot howls of horror in halloween haunted houses.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /h/, /h/

If cows could fly I'd have a cow pie in my eye.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /f/

If two witches watched watches then which witch would watch which watch?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /tʃ/

A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

A certain young fellow named Beebee, Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

An old seabear sits on the pier and drinks a pint of beer.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /b/

If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /tʃ/

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ð/, /s/

If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practised and practically perfect.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /p/, /k/

Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /r/, /r/

She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /m/, /h/

I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /ʃ/

You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /n/, /j/

If big black bats could blow bubbles, how big of bubbles would big black bats blow?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /b/, /b/

A canner can can anything that he can, But a canner can't can a can, can he?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /n/

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /w/, /w/

Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /ʃ/

A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /s/, /st/

I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I'll see you at the gate, so don't be late.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /d/, /t/

Sarah, Sarah, sits in her Chevy; When she shifts she sips her Schlitz, and when she sips her Schlitz she shifts.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /ʃ/, /s/

Can you can a canned can into an un-canned can like a canner can can a canned can into an un-canned can?

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /n/

If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /k/, /k/

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn't the thought I thought I thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn't have thought I thought.

• Prominent Sounds:
  • /θ/, /ð/