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How to pronounce aisle

Aisle is pronounced ILE, exactly like I'll and isle. It is one syllable, it rhymes with mile, and the S is silent.

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  • 1 syllable
  • Stress on ILE
  • Sounds like isle
  • Checked in Cambridge and Oxford

aisle

One syllable

noun · a passage between rows of seats or shelves

  1. ILEaɪl (stressed)
  • US /aɪl/ILE Recorded voice
  • UK /aɪl/ILE Your device’s voice

IPA checked in the Cambridge Dictionary and Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. The recording is American English.

Aisle, sound by sound

Each sound in the IPA, with a word you already know that has it.

USUK American and British English/aɪl/

  1. ILEstressed

    • /aɪ/as in my
    • /l/as in leg

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Tip. It sounds exactly like I'll and isle. The S is silent.

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    Common aisle pronunciation mistakes

    What people often say instead, and how to fix it. Say ILE.

    • NotAY-zl

      Reading ai as in rain and saying the S. The vowel is eye and the S is silent.

    • NotICE-l

      Saying the S as in ice. There is no S sound at all.

    • NotAYL

      That is ail or ale. Aisle starts with the eye sound.

    Aisle in a sentence

    Hear each one, slow it down, then say it. Words change a little when they join others, so practise them in sentences too.

    • Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat?

    • The pasta is in aisle six.

    • She walked down the aisle on her wedding day.

    Why is there an S in aisle?

    Aisle comes from the Old French ele, a wing, from the Latin ala. In Middle English it was ele too, with no S. It first named the side parts, or wings, of a church.

    People then mixed it up with isle, an island, and began to spell and say it like that word. Later the spelling was changed again to look like the modern French aile, which brought in the A. The S from isle stayed in the spelling, but it is not said.

    So say it like I'll, the short form of I will, and you are right in both accents.

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