--- title: "How to pronounce \"be wrong\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"be wrong\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/cgPAAt9Nd7o/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/be-wrong" --- # How to pronounce "be wrong" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/bɛwrɒng/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **be·wrong** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "be wrong" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "And now when this went wrong and this aspect of my life, I bet these other aspects are going to follow suit and also be wrong. And then what. This went wrong because I did it." - **Watch at 11:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgPAAt9Nd7o&t=665s) ### Example 2 > "be wrong. Is is comedy getting harder with especially with social media? If you post something on social media, seems like people get very offended very" - **Watch at 17:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qln14OYb_xY&t=1064s) ### Example 3 > "be wrong and it might go down well if I don't believe it can possibly go down I don't have anything that's going to stop" - **Watch at 9:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jYm6JypmUg&t=552s) ### Example 4 > "robot toys it all seems so innocuous and yet how could so many Hollywood scripts be wrong I ask you ask yourself that how many M how could millions of dollars of special effects lead us astray so take no chances arm yourself with expert knowledge for the sake of" - **Watch at 13:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LK0oIywDgE&t=814s) ### Example 5 > "early stages of it the good sides of it are for instance if you want the answer to a question and you put it out there you'll get the answers some of them may be wrong but you'll get a whole bunch of answers and you can then sift through them and and see which ones fit your question um if you want help with something and people often send out cries for help for their various causes" - **Watch at 0:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e-ugLMgfT4&t=52s) ### Example 6 > "low and other cryptocurrency or other financial systems will overtake it what would be the reason for that in your mind like why might you be wrong if you look back at it yeah in the future what did you not understand about bitcoin that uh will result in that yeah that's a great question i think for that to happen one of two" - **Watch at 80:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDyBbGCiBUU&t=4829s) ### Example 7 > "we should figure it out and it's not about us the scientific activity is about figuring out nature and sometimes we may be wrong our image will not be preserved but it's that's the fun you know kids explore the world out of curiosity and i always want to maintain my childhood curiosity and i don't care about the labels that i have in fact having tenure is is exactly the" - **Watch at 48:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcc6E-E1uU&t=2916s) ### Example 8 > "to just literally objectively measure when someone is angry or when they're sad or when they're happy. I don't want to have to ask them because they could be wrong. And in that phrasing of the question, there's a presumption, right? That there is an objective state called anger that generally most instances of anger will look the same regardless of person and context. And I very quickly realized that there are" - **Watch at 11:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCtvAvZtJyE&t=707s) ### Example 9 > "level with other people you your point um Erica your answer about being okay to be wrong I think is really really important to a lot of the conversations we've had today because most of the time people don't want to have these conversations because they're sort of ideologically attached to a certain position typically the position that's associated with whatever their job is or" - **Watch at 142:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LjNUabIJOk&t=8556s) ### Example 10 > "again i would like to go into a relationship and potentially a marriage or whatever fully believing in it but being happy to be wrong and if i get divorced later on in life as long as i tried my hardest and i committed i can take that i could take that as a loss or whatever it is but somehow in this debate we've lost the ability to try your hardest at something and you know what if 10 15 years down the line you do lose it be amicable about it don't destroy" - **Watch at 36:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWvF2RzSnd4&t=2217s) ## How to Pronounce "be wrong" - **Syllables**: be · wrong - **IPA**: `/bɛwrɒng/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [barking up the wrong tree](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/barking-up-the-wrong-tree), [on the wrong track](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/on-the-wrong-track), [misguided](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/misguided), [mistaken](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/mistaken), [off base](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/off-base), [wide of the mark](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wide-of-the-mark), [wrong](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wrong) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “be wrong”? “be wrong” is pronounced /bɛwrɒng/ (be · wrong). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “be wrong”? “be wrong” has 2 syllables: be · wrong. ### How can I hear “be wrong” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “be wrong” with synchronized subtitles. 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