Tongue twisters
How to use the index of tongue twisters
This index of peculiar pronunciation sentences also has examples. There are several for each letter of the alphabet, as well as a couple of other sounds (OO and TH).
What you need to do to see more is hover your cursor over the titles of each letter. From there, you can click through to the complete collection of those particular tongue twisters. You will also find a free downloadable PDF on each page!
Andrew ate eight acidic apples.
Anna audited Apache Art and an ancient atlas amongst the assets.
Alice asks for axes, Alice asks for axes, Alice asks for axes.
Ageing abbots at abbey altars always avoid angry angels. Angry angels also avoid ageing abbots at ancient abbey altars.
A big blue bucket of blue blueberries.
Belgian brothers biking for big business bank budgets.
How many berries could a bare berry carry, if a bare berry could carry berries?
A beaver bit a bass as a big barracuda bit a beaver.
Celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant, celibate celebrant.
If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
If colored caterpillars could change their colors constantly, could they keep their colored coat colored properly?
Crash Quiche Course.
When a doctor doctors a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
Dirty desert dogs dancing dizzily.
Denise sees the fleece and Denise sees the fleas. At least Denise could sneeze, feed, and freeze the fleas.
Electric energy elevates, electric energy elevates an escalator, electric energy energizes engines, and enables easy electric energy.
At eight, Eddie ate eight eggs every day.
Ellen eyed an exit, and Elon enjoyed an early exodus event.
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin pulled the fisherman in. Now they’re fishing in the fissure for Fisher.
The farmer’s father foraged for food in forgotten French farm fields.
A fly and flea flew into a flue, said the fly to the flea ‘What shall we do?’ ‘Let us fly,’ said the flea said the fly ‘shall we flee’. So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
Three gray geese in a green field grazing, gray were the geese and green was the grazing.
Gibbons gave their granite god a gong in grassy Guatemala.
How much ground could a groundhog grind if a groundhog could grind ground?
Greedy Grandma Gabby Grimmer grabbed a gallon of gummy goulash. If greedy Grandma Gabby Grimmer grabbed a gallon of gummy goulash, how many gallons of gummy goulash did greedy Grandma Gabby Grimmer grab?
Does Harry Hunt hunt heavy hairy hares? How does Harry Hunt hunt heavy hairy hares? If Harry Hunt hunts heavy hairy hares, where are the heavy hairy hares Harry Hunt hunts?
A hungry hunter went hunting hyenas with hounds, but huge, horrible howls drove him home to his hut.
His hobby is hanging in hammocks. He happily hangs in hammocks. If he hadn’t a hammock to hang in, he’d holler and howl like hell, then hang his head, until he had a hanging hammock to hang in.
The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.
I miss my Swiss Miss and my Swiss Miss misses me.
Ingenious iguanas improvising an intricate impromptu on impossibly impractical instruments.
The nice lime pie slice is mine, and the fried rice with mince is my wife’s.
Our Joe wants to know if your Joe will lend our Joe your Joe’s banjo. If your Joe won’t lend our Joe your Joe’s banjo, our Joe won’t lend your Joe our Joe’s banjo when our Joe has a banjo!
John jumps for joy at jukebox jazz, and jingling jukebox jazz makes Jane jump joyfully.
A giant genie with a jade jackal was enjoying a jungle journey in Java. A jaguar joined the journey and joked about gems and jewels, making the giant genie and the jade jackal jealous.
How many kumquats could a Kenyan king cook if a Kenyan king could cook Kumquats?
A knick-knack interlock knock-kneed knickerbocker sock with a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
The wok cookbook broke the book rack.
A crackerjack brickmaking kiln.
Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke’s duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. Luke Luck takes licks in lakes ducks like.
I eat eel while you peel eel.
loyal royal lawyer.
Eleven owls licked eleven little, liquorice lollipops.
A missing mixture measure.
A maid named Lady Marmalade made mainly lard and lemonade.
Mary Mac’s mother is making Mary Mac marry me. My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac. Will I always be so merry when Mary’s taking care of me? Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?
Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
I need not your needles, they’re needless to me. For needing needles is needless, you see. But did my neat trousers but need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed.
Nancy knows no banana names. If Nancy knew banana names, Nancy would know bananas.
A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.
An unknown number of numbats entered a narrow nook at noon.
Tongue twisters with O
“Under the mother otter,” muttered the other otter.
Awful old Ollie oils oily autos.
Old oily Ollie oils old oily autos.
Octopus ocular optics.
OneOne was a racehorse. TwoTwo was one, too. When OneOne won one race, TwoTwo won one, too
I’ll harpoon wahoo all I want to, you can harpoon too. If we harpoon all the wahoo, we can be harpoon tycoons and get home by two.
The noodle spoon in the room is maroon.
A kangaroo with a loose tooth inside a bootleg saloon.
A kooky moo in a gloomy zoo.
A pleasant place to place a plaice is a place where a plaice is pleased to be placed.
If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
Paul, please pause for proper applause.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
The aqua quilt is on the quintuplets’ queen’s bed. The comfortable aqua quilt is quite quaint. The aqua quilt is quite soft. Quinine the quilt, and I squawk and squeal on the quaint aqua quilts quite quietly.
Squeeze a quill, a quail quill, squeeze and write an oblique prequel.
Quincy equipped square quicksilver quivers for the epic Quebec Sasquatch quest.
Quick queens quack quick quacks quicker than quacking quails.
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
Rhys watched Ross switch his Irish wristwatch for a Swiss wristwatch.
Real rear wheel.
Ray Rag ran across a rough road. Across a rough road, Ray Rag ran.
A regal rural ruler.
I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Where she sits, she shines, and where she shines, she sits.
Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
She is a thistle sifter. She has a sieve of unsifted thistles and a sieve of sifted thistles, and the sieve of unsifted thistles she sifts into the sieve of sifted thistles because she is a thistle sifter.
Shoe section, shoe section, shoe section.
Terry Teeter, a teeter-totter teacher, taught her daughter Tara to teeter-totter, but Tara Teeter didn’t teeter-totter as Terry Teeter taught her to.
Tacky tractor-trailer trucks.
Tight-lipped tuba teachers tipple tea to treat tingles.
Don’t trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you! If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!
I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
Elizabeth’s birthday is on the third Thursday of this month.
She thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of her thumb.
They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw.
Tom threw Tim three thumbtacks.
An undertaker undertook to undertake an undertaking. The undertaking that the undertaker undertook was the hardest undertaking the undertaker ever undertook to undertake.
A huge emu at Uluru uncovered an unusual uniform.
Umi’s union is unsure about the unrest update in Uganda’s utopia.
You like New York, unique New York. You know you need unique New York.
Vlad and Victor videoed various volatile volcanoes.
Verified vials of viper venom are volatile and heavy. Removing vast volumes of viper venom is vital for veteran veterinarians.
Valves of vuvuzelas vibrating in the Vatican.
Vandalized valley villas with views.
Which is the witch that wished the wicked wish?
Who washed Washington’s white woollen underwear when Washington’s washerwoman went west?
Wire welding was once wanted in Warsaw.
Wally wanted water, but Wilma wanted whiskey.
Wednesday’s wild, windy weather was woeful.
Tongue twisters with X
Executive Xavier’s xylophones.
Xmas wrecks perplex and vex.
Expert expressions expressly expressed yet not explained.
Xenophobic xenops xeroxed x-rays.
The ex-egg examiner.
X-ray checks clear chests.
Yally Bally had a jolly dolly. Feeling folly, Yally Bally bought his jolly dolly another dolly made of holly! The dolly, feeling jolly, named the new holly dolly, Polly. So Yally Bally’s jolly dolly’s holly dolly Polly’s also jolly!
A yelling yellow Yeti in the Yukon yearns for Yankee yoga.
Young Yolanda Yates loves yellow yoyos, yogurt, and yummy yellow yams.
Slimy teriyaki crypt, slimy teriyaki crypt, slimy teriyaki crypt.
The sizes of zoos in Zambia outsize the zoos of Zaragoza.
Civilized gazelles eat bizarre pretzels in deserts.
Sneezing glaziers squeezing tweezers.
Through three cheese trees, three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, a freezy breeze blew. The freezing breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees’ cheese freeze. That’s what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Amazing Japanese trapeze on skis.
