--- title: "How to pronounce \"crackhead\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"crackhead\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/GolsmOWvnHI/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/crackhead" --- # How to pronounce "crackhead" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈkɹæk.hɛd/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/04/En-au-crackhead.ogg/En-au-crackhead.ogg.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **crac·khead** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine. - *Example*: "My shooter a crackhead, he look like Woody Harrelson" - **NOUN**: Someone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person. - *Example*: "You know who strangled the old man? You know who did it? A fuckin' stupid crackhead! He is pointing at himself and in tears. It's Ava's landlord who is dead." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "crackhead" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Can you explain what that is? A 'crackhead' is a common slang term for someone who's addicted to taking crack cocaine. So a drug user." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GolsmOWvnHI&t=173s) ### Example 2 > "Harmony crackheads. All right." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eY5VOkOsOI&t=281s) ### Example 3 > "It's not just crackheads, and crack dealers, and rappers." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:52](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_4tAafaUfs&t=832s) ### Example 4 > "He wants it more, you know what I mean? That's why the crackheads fight. They go for the kill straight away, you know?" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 156:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ6PACCBy8&t=9405s) ### Example 5 > "We love crackheads." What he meant was-- the first part he was actually being sarcastic." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 19:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T89uDdO7UI&t=1163s) ### Example 6 > "with Samantha brown as a sort of crackhead alcoholic who shoots me in the kneecap and I think who else is in it" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 6:06](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASIkVg6J4ac&t=366s) ### Example 7 > "Basically, we're harmony crackheads." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:38](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eY5VOkOsOI&t=278s) ### Example 8 > "new IL illegal immigrants when the petty criminals and the crackheads decide to" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 34:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpwnjYqbqDI&t=2086s) ### Example 9 > "ever heard I mean it was like you know the essence of nihilism you know it was the a one word that was going to destroy everything in every city in America and I was kind of haunted by that uh and in fact I was teaching kids that had been uh crackheads or had been dealing crack and they they were nonwhite they were from broken homes they were from you know had some really awful histories and they were doing a drug 10 times worse than the sniffing Coke that I took and" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iGS4eBbiaI&t=70s) ### Example 10 > "Before we hear that, though, there's one word that it might be helpful to know, which is a bit of an informal word, and that's 'crackhead'." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GolsmOWvnHI&t=166s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Synonyms**: [addle-brain](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/addle-brain), [addlehead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/addlehead), [addle pate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/addle-pate), [airhead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/airhead) - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [cracked](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cracked), [crackled](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/crackled), [cra](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/cra), [craal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/craal), [craaled](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/craaled), [craaling](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/craaling), [crab](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/crab), [crabapple](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/crabapple) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "crackhead" correctly? 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