Skip to the word
Slova
Start learning
Menu

How to pronounce wrestle

Wrestle is pronounced RES-l, with two syllables and the stress on the first. The w and the t are both silent. It sounds like a word that rhymes with vessel.

Say it yourself
  • 2 syllables
  • Stress on RES
  • US and UK IPA
  • Checked in Cambridge and Oxford

wrestle

Two syllables, stress on the first

verb · to fight by holding and pushing someone to the ground, often as a sport

  1. RESres (stressed)
  2. ləl
  • US /ˈres.əl/RES-l Recorded voice
  • UK /ˈres.əl/RES-l Your device’s voice

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

Wrestle, sound by sound

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

USUK American and British English/ˈres.əl/

  1. RESstressed

    • /r/as in red
    • /e/as in bed
    • /s/as in see

  2. l

    • /ə/as in about
    • /l/as in leg

Say wrestle yourself

Press the microphone and say it once. Your browser writes down what it hears: if it writes wrestle, you were understood. If it writes another word, you see which sound changed.

Tip. Say RES-l. The w and the t are both silent, so it sounds like ressle.

Record yourself and play it next to our recording: the quickest way to hear a difference.

Say it

Say this word

wrestle

    Common wrestle pronunciation mistakes

    What people often say instead, and how to fix it. Say RES-l.

    • NotRES-tl

      Saying the t because it is written. Go from s straight to the light l.

    • Notwuh-RES-l

      Saying the w. Begin with R.

    • NotRAS-l

      Using the vowel of cat. It is the e of bed: RES.

    Wrestle 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.

    • My brothers wrestle in the garden every Sunday.

    • He had to wrestle the bag away from the dog.

    • I wrestle with this problem every week.

    Which letters are silent in wrestle?

    Two letters are silent: the w at the start and the t in the middle. The w is the same as in wrist and write. The t drops out in -stle words such as castle, whistle and listen.

    The word comes from Old English wraestlian, a repeated form of wraestan, to twist. A wrestler is, in a way, a person who keeps twisting. Old English speakers said the w; modern speakers do not.

    Say it in two quick pieces: res, then a light l with no vowel before it. Do not add a t before the l, and do not add a w at the start.

    Words that sound like wrestle

    Rhymes and words that share its tricky sound. Open any of them in the checker and say it.

    More words with silent letters

    All 170 difficult words

    Say words like wrestle out loud with Slova

    In Slova you say new words out loud in every lesson, at your level, in lessons built around what you love.

    Start learning free
    All free tools