--- title: "How to pronounce \"gamepad\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"gamepad\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/d0DJh4HctuA/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/gamepad" --- # How to pronounce "gamepad" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈɡeɪm.pæd/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-gamepad.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-gamepad.wav.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ga·me·pad** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: A type of game controller held in both hands and controlled with the thumbs. ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "gamepad" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "third person kind of platform games like a Mario Style game um like Lucky's tail and Kronos and uh edge of nowhere a ton of the games that we're showing all built around a Gamepad where you don't actually see your hands you see the character in front of you um there's also a lot of first-person games that you can make where you're not actually physically interacting with your hands that are all best played on a game pad and the Xbox One controller is one of" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0DJh4HctuA&t=167s) ### Example 2 > "cost one of Germany's biggest training centers for computer game programmers is located in trior at the moment the students are working on one of the newest Gamepad systems systems the sector is growing computer games now generate more income than feature films at the same time the image of computer games has changed almost one in two Germans regularly play computer games nowadays" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFd3Jwu7Kw&t=116s) ### Example 3 > "as well as seesaws. And they're not alone. Keyboard and mouse, gamepad, these are the things that we use to control video games. Anybody that's played a game will be familiar with them. But what about if there was a different method of interacting with the action on the screen? That's what this band on my wrist is doing. It's fitted with a" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWY2q90lbWg&t=192s) ### Example 4 > "hoping it's a boost sales of the console you know we think that the Star Fox game is going to be truly brilliant it leverages the gamepad so that you are looking at the TV during parts of the game you're looking at the gamepad during other parts of the game and as you touched on Star Fox hasn't been on a console for us in many many years our fans have been waiting for it the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deO1aIA19VY&t=70s) ### Example 5 > "uh point for that feature set. Um and if something like trackpads isn't something that interests you, you know, you might not see the value in the price. Um and there's plenty of great controllers out there that are straight-up gamepads without advanced inputs. Um and and you know, that maybe that's the one for you. But in this case, like we think we provide a lot of value for the price point that this controller lands at." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 8:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l647RABAWtE&t=495s) ### Example 6 > "half the screen is the game, and the other half is an on-screen gamepad." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrT4S9i3agE&t=164s) ### Example 7 > "controller, or even Steam Deck. So kind of the timing is good. The landscape makes sense that we want to have with Steam Deck and with the new Steam Controller uh uh input surface that can handle all of your inputs equally well whether the game is made for a gamepad or not. >> Yeah." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l647RABAWtE&t=153s) ### Example 8 > "high that's the biggest cost with danto one of Germany's biggest training centers for computer game programmers is located in trio at the moment the students are working on one of the newest gamepad systems the sector is growing computer games now generate more income than feature films at the same" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 13:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHgOHTmDVmo&t=809s) ### Example 9 > "but it's still early days for everyone trying to work on this stuff so i'm trying not to be too harsh or judgy on the app situation for foldables just yet but it could use some work i think possibly the most ambitious feature that lg built in is called the gamepad which turns one of your screens into a game controller that lets you map specific buttons on the controller to certain touch areas on the screen in games you play and it works okay in some suggested" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2CdBFA98SI&t=332s) ### Example 10 > "um built into it for a different way to control the mouse, um back buttons. What we learned from that was yes, it actually does play mouse and PC games uh sorry, mouse and keyboard games well, uh but because it was lacking all of the typical gamepad inputs that people would expect, it didn't play games that were made for controller as well. Like, there's only one thumbstick, there's no D-pad, and those were missed. Um so, going from the Steam Controller to the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:55](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l647RABAWtE&t=55s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Synonyms**: [joypad](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/joypad) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "gamepad" correctly? "gamepad" is pronounced `/ˈɡeɪm.pæd/`. Syllable breakdown: **ga·me·pad**. ### What does "gamepad" mean in context? 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