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How to pronounce trill in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms shake
Type of tone, musical note, note
Type Words
Synonyms quaver, warble
Type of sing
Type Words
Type of enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out, articulate, enounce


Some speakers trill their r's.
Type Words
Type of articulation


he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill.

Examples of trill

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Trill fashioned it using a laborious process, beating the metal from both sides.
From the metro.co.uk
The alveolar trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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The bilabial trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Her trill remains wonderfully fluent and accurate and her diction is excellent.
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His hands leap across the keys yet can trill notes for what seems an eternity.
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Surviving member and Houston resident Bun B keeps things, in his words, trill.
From the chron.com
Above it, the flutes and clarinets launch into an obsessively elongated trill.
From the denverpost.com
Pine warblers give their musical trill from the tops of pines on calm winter days.
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The uvular trill is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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More examples
  • A note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
  • Pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'; "Some speakers trill their r's"
  • The articulation of a consonant (especially the consonant `r') with a rapid flutter of the tongue against the palate or uvula; "he pronounced his R's with a distinct trill"
  • Warble: sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
  • (trilled) rolled: uttered with a trill; "she used rolling r's as in Spanish"
  • Trill is the solo debut album by UGK member Bun B. It is said that Bun released the album to keep the UGK name alive while Pimp C was in jail. It debuted at #6 on the Billboard 200. ...
  • TRILL (Transparent Interconnect of Lots of Links) is an IETF Protocol implemented by devices called RBridges or Routing Bridges. TRILL combines the advantages of bridges and routers and is the application of link state routing to the VLAN-aware customer-bridging problem. ...
  • The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th till the 19th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trill.Taylor, Eric. ...
  • In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the articulator and the place of articulation. Standard Spanish <rr> as in perro is an alveolar trill, while in Parisian French it is almost always uvular.