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What exactly are English tongue twisters?
Top 100 Tongue Twisters words : Tongue twisters are like tricky word puzzles that make your tongue twist when you try to say them quickly. They use tricky combinations of sounds that are hard to say one after the other.
Imagine trying to say something like “Sally sells seashells by the seashore” really fast without getting your tongue mixed up! That’s what tongue twisters are all about. They’re like word games that challenge you to say them without tripping over your tongue.
We don’t know for sure where tongue twisters came from, but people think that clever writers and language experts made them up a long time ago, just to have fun with words. The oldest one we know of is “Miss Smith’s fish-sauce shop.” Maybe there was really a Miss Smith who sold fish sauce, and someone thought it would be funny to make a tongue twister about her shop!
Tongue twisters aren’t just for fun, though. They can actually help people who have trouble speaking clearly. Speech therapists sometimes use them to help people practice saying tricky sounds. And some people even say that saying a tongue twister can cure hiccups, although I’m not sure how well that works—I’ll have to give it a try sometime!
Top 100 Tongue Twisters words
50 Easy and simple English tongue twisters words for beginners
Are you ready for a tongue twister challenge? Check out these 62 tongue twisters!
We’ve sorted these tongue twisters as “easy” because they have a good rhythm and are simple to remember. But they’ll still have you laughing so hard, you might end up on the floor!
| No. | Tongue Twister |
|---|---|
| 1 | A big black bug bit a big black bear. |
| 2 | A flea and a fly flew up in a flue. |
| 3 | A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped. |
| 4 | A noisy noise annoys an oyster. |
| 5 | A proper copper coffee pot. |
| 6 | A shapeless sash sags slowly. |
| 7 | A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym. |
| 8 | An ape hates grape cakes. |
| 9 | Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said the butter’s bitter. If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. |
| 10 | Betty bought butter, but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better. |
| 11 | Billybob blabbered boldly. |
| 12 | Black bug’s blood. |
| 13 | Blue glue gun, green glue gun. |
| 14 | Can you can a can as a canner can can a can? |
| 15 | Cooks cook cupcakes quickly. |
| 16 | Double bubble gum, bubbles double. |
| 17 | Eddie edited it. |
| 18 | Eleven benevolent elephants. |
| 19 | Eleven elves licked eleven little licorice lollipops. |
| 20 | Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree. |
| 21 | Four furious friends fought for the phone. |
| 22 | Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread. |
| 23 | Frivolously fanciful Fannie fried fresh fish furiously. |
| 24 | Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he? |
| 25 | Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. |
| 26 | Good blood, bad blood. |
| 27 | Greek grapes. |
| 28 | Green glass globes glow greenly. |
| 29 | He threw three balls through the tall trees. |
| 30 | How can a clam cram in a clean cream can? |
| 31 | How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans? A canner can can as many cans as a canner can, if a canner can can cans. |
| 32 | How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks? |
| 33 | How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? |
| 34 | I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen. |
| 35 | I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. |
| 36 | I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. |
| 37 | I thought a thought, but the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought. |
| 38 | I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish. |
| 39 | If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect. |
| 40 | If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? |
| 41 | If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing. |
| 42 | Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen. |
| 43 | One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too. |
| 44 | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
| 45 | Red blood, green blood. |
| 46 | Rubber baby buggy bumpers. |
| 47 | Santa’s sleigh slid on the slick snow. |
| 48 | Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle. |
| 49 | Seventy-seven benevolent elephants. |
| 50 | She sees cheese. |
30 Hardest English tongue twisters to improve your pronunciation
Get ready for a linguistic workout with these 30 tongue twisters! From “Irish wristwatch” to “selfish shellfish,” these phrases will have your mouth feeling like it just completed a marathon. Get ready to twist and turn those tongue muscles!
| # | Tongue Twister | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A loyal warrior will rarely worry why we rule. | ə ˌlɔɪəl ˈwɔːriər ˌwiˈrerli ˈwɜːri ˈwaɪ wi ˈruːl |
| 2 | A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk. | ə ˈskəŋk ˈsæt ˈɑːn ə ˈstəmp ənd ˈθənk ðə ˈstəmp ˈstəŋk bət ðə ˈstəmp ˈθənk ðə ˈskəŋk ˈstəŋk |
| 3 | Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly. | ˈbrɪsk ˈbreɪv ˌbrɪɡəˈdɪəz ˈbrændɪʃt brɔˈbraɪt ˈbleɪdz ˈblʌndəbʌsɪz ənd ˈblʌdʒənz ˈbælənsɪŋ ðəm ˈbædli |
| 4 | Fresh French fried fly fritters. | ˈfreʃ ˈfrentʃ ˈfraɪd flaɪ ˈfrɪtəz |
| 5 | He threw three free throws. | ˈhi: ˈθruː θri: ˈfri: ˈθroʊz |
| 6 | How much ground would a groundhog hog if a groundhog could hog ground? | ˌhaʊ ˈmʌtʃ graʊnd wʊd ə ˈɡraʊndˌhɑːɡ ˈhɑːɡ ɪf ə ˈɡraʊndˌhɑːɡ kəd ˈhɑːɡ ˈɡraʊnd |
| 7 | I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit. | ˈaɪ sˈlɪt ðə ʃiðə ʃiˈaɪ sˈlɪt ənd ˈɑːn ðə slitted ʃiˈaɪ ˈsɪt |
| 8 | If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully. | ɪf ju məst ˈkrɒs ə ˈkɔːrs ˈkrɒs ˈkaʊ əˈkrɒs ə ˈkraʊdəd ˈkaʊ ˈkrɒsɪŋ ˈkrɒs ðə ˈkrɒs ˈkɔːrs ˈkaʊ əˈkrɒs ðə ˈkraʊdəd ˈkaʊ ˈkrɒsɪŋ ˈkerfəli |
| 9 | Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie | ˌɪˈmædʒən ən ˌɪˈmædʒəˌneri məˈnædʒəri ˈmænədʒər ˈmænədʒɪŋ ən ˌɪˈmædʒəˌneri məˈnædʒəri |
| 10 | Irish wristwatch, Swiss wristwatch. | ˈaɪˌrɪʃ ˈrɪˌstwɑːtʃ ˈswɪs ˈrɪˌstwɑːtʃ |
| 11 | Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better. | ˈlesər leðər ˈnevər ˈweðərd ˈwetər ˈweðə ˈbetər |
| 12 | Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke’s duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes. | ˈluːks ˈdək ˈlaɪks ˈleɪks ˈluːk ˈlək ˈlɪks ˈleɪks ˈluːks ˈdək ˈlɪks ˈleɪks ˈdək ˈteɪks ˈlɪks ɪn ˈleɪks ˈluːk ˈlək ˈlaɪks |
| 13 | Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. | ˈpæd ˈkɪd ˈpɔːrd ˈkɝːd ˈpʊld ˈkɑːd |
| 14 | Red lorry, yellow lorry. | ˈred ˈlɔːri ˈjeloʊ ˈlɔːri |
| 15 | Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery. | ˈrɔːri ðə ˈwɔːriər ənd ˈrɑːdʒər ðə ˈwɜːriər wər ˈrɪrd ˈrɒŋli ɪn ə ˈrʊrəl ˈbruːəri |
| 16 | Selfish shellfish. (Repeat many times) | ˈselfɪʃ ˈʃelfɪʃ |
| 17 | Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents. | ˈsend toʊst tə ˈten ˈtens ˈstaʊt ˈseɪnts ˈten ˈtɒl ˈtents |
| 18 | She saw Sherif’s shoes on the sofa. But was she so sure those were Sherif’s shoes she saw? | ˈʃi: sɔ: sherif’s ˈʃuːz ˈɑːn ðə ˈsoʊfə bət wəz ˈʃi: soʊ ʃʊə ðoʊz wər sherif’s ˈʃuːz ˈʃi: ˈsɔː |
| 19 | She sells seashells by the seashore. | ˈʃi: ˈselz ˈsiːˌʃelz ˈbaɪ ðə ˈsiːˌʃɔːr |
| 20 | Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks. | ˈsɪks sɪk ˈhɪks ˈnɪk ˈsɪks sˈlɪk ˈbrɪks wɪθ ˈpɪks ənd ˈstɪks |
| 21 | Six sleek swans swam swiftly southwards. | ˈsɪks sˈliːk ˈswɑːnz ˈswæm ˈswɪftli ˈsaʊθwədz |
| 22 | Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines. | ˈsuːzi ˈwɝːks ɪn ə ˈʃuːˌʃaɪn ʃɒp ˈhwer̩ ˈʃi: ˈʃaɪnz ˈʃi: ˈsɪts ənd ˈhwer̩ ˈʃi: ˈsɪts ˈʃi: ˈʃaɪnz |
| 23 | The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday. | ðə thirty-three ˈθiːvz ˈθɔðæt ˈðeɪ ˈθrɪld ðə ˈθroʊn θruːˈaʊt ˈθɝːzdeɪ |
| 24 | The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick. | ðə ˈsɪksθ sɪk ˈʃiːks ˈsɪksθ ˈʃiːps ˈsɪk |
| 25 | Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday. | thirty-three ˈθɝːsti ˈθʌndərɪŋ ˈθɝːoˈbredz ˈθəmpt ˈmɪstər ˈθɝːbər ˈɑːn ˈθɝːzdeɪ |
| 26 | Three free throws. | θri: ˈfri: ˈθroʊz |
| 27 | Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks. | tɒp ˈtʃɑːpˌstɪk ˈʃɑːps stɒk tɒp ˈtʃɑːpˌstɪks |
| 28 | Wayne went to wales to watch walruses. | ˈweɪn ˈwent tə ˈweɪlz tə ˈwɒtʃ ˈwɑːlrəsəz |
| 29 | Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches? | hwɪtʃ ˈrɪst ˈwɑːtʃəz ər ˈswɪs ˈrɪst ˈwɑːtʃəz |
| 30 | You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York. | ju ˈnoʊ ˈnjuː ˈjɔːrk ju ˈnid ˈnjuː ˈjɔːrk ju ˈnoʊ ju ˈnid juˈniːk ˈnjuː ˈjɔːrk |
Have these tongue twisters twisted your tongue?
If you’re looking to enhance your English language skills, whether as a second language learner or simply wanting to refine your articulation, tongue twisters offer a playful and effective way to improve pronunciation, diction, and tongue coordination.
Tongue twisters serve as an enjoyable method to refine English pronunciation by encouraging individuals to slow down and refine their articulation while transitioning between words. While many of them may seem nonsensical, they provide a rhythmic and amusing exercise for the tongue.
With over 100 tongue twisters included, you’ll undoubtedly find yourself contorting your tongue in amusing ways, perfect for sharing laughs with friends, family, and classmates.
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What is the no. 1 tongue twister?
According to The Guinness Book of World Records, the toughest tongue twister is ‘The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick‘. But, according to researchers at world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the most difficult tongue twisters is “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.”
What is the golden tongue?
The Golden Tongue is an essence gem which grants a moderate bonus to all three conversation skills (Charm, Intuition, and Intimidation). It is the strongest gem in a series of three, the other being The Bronze Tongue and The Silver Tongue.
