How to pronounce oil and use it in English

Explore videos where real people say oil and use it in real situations

Welcome oil learner!

We are building a video-based pronunciation dictionary and usage API to help you learn how to pronounce and use oil, along with tens of thousands of other English words and phrases.

Typical dictionaries provide you with audio snippets and usage examples like below:

oil the wooden surface

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While curating videos for oil, we'll be considering things like variations in pronunciations based on local accents. We'll even illustrate the use of oil in idioms like below:

burn the midnight oil
burned the midnight oil

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Thoughts* on how to pronounce oil

By starting with two different vowels, oil could be hard to pronounce by some non-English speakers. When pronouncing it, the 'o' and 'i' are so strongly connected that it's like they are a single letter.

*These are free thoughts on the pronunciation of oil, and they will likely evolve overtime. They are typically informal and may use different a phonetic pronunciation alphabet from time to time.

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