--- title: "How to pronounce \"lesb\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"lesb\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/GgPRAMbDVZE/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lesb" --- # How to pronounce "lesb" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/lɛsb/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **lesb** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Abbreviation of lesbian. ### NOUN - Abbreviation of lesbian. - *Example*: "Suppress the queers, the fairies, the lesbs, the fags, the queens, the fruits, the abnormal." ### Example Sentences - "Suppress the queers, the fairies, the lesbs, the fags, the queens, the fruits, the abnormal." - "lesbians Sisters impressions Trans because I wanna be a decent person. That's right, e. I love I love the solidarity and love means care. Love means" - "Lesbians and gay men who had been fighting throughout the 1970s found a way to work together in the '80s to combat this horrible disease." ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "lesb" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "integrity, honesty, decency and want to serve others. I love that. The good of man. Absolutely. You see, So I'm straight. I'm gonna show up for my gay brothers and lesbians Sisters impressions Trans because I wanna be a decent person. That's right, e. I love I love the solidarity and love means care. Love means concern. Love means protect respect but also correct. So there's a critical element to love. Ain't no love without corrected folks because they know love without" - **Watch at 11:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgPRAMbDVZE&t=711s) ### Example 2 > "Lesbians and gay men who had been fighting throughout the 1970s found a way to work together in the '80s to combat this horrible disease." - **Watch at 4:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekuufrldewU&t=291s) ### Example 3 > "lesbian lovers Huma uh Huma converted Hillary to Islam and and blah blah blah" - **Watch at 26:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXUAcinXF8&t=1610s) ### Example 4 > "Lesbian Lives happened the next year, same thing." - **Watch at 18:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nijidGU6abA&t=1105s) ### Example 5 > "lesbian trans gender uh Iranians they left the country and they fled to Turkey" - **Watch at 22:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGNNvO2nIIE&t=1345s) ### Example 6 > "book. Um, one basic starting point is when you look at folks who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, the majority, actually 52% of that population are bisexual. And so, um, while it's often an afterthought," - **Watch at 3:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWbapXo4VU&t=196s) ### Example 7 > "I notice especially 15, 20 years ago because they were close to my theory I met many sadomasicist lesbians. And I can tell you I never met nicer, more kind girls or women. It is as if they were able to enact all the dirty disgusting stuff out there so that then" - **Watch at 6:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYO-VMZUGo&t=408s) ### Example 8 > "landed me on coar with a young woman named charlotta melander a Swedish young woman we actually looked at the role of artists concentrations gay male and lesbian concentration on housing prices and what we found is controlling for income controlling for Education the effect of this gay and lesbian Arts culture thing was ginormous but what is going on so so places that are more open" - **Watch at 44:57**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_RVvxO-Ifo&t=2697s) ### Example 9 > "the world should be a fair equal place. But the reality is I also want the best for my children. I understand that people discriminate against gays and lesbians. I don't want my child to be discriminated against. Until the revolution occurs and there is equality, I want my children to have the best opportunities. I wouldn't necessarily just apply that to sexual orientation. I think that's a reasonable philosophy to apply to race, religion, ethnicity, any" - **Watch at 15:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-QPjzzeDMU&t=952s) ### Example 10 > "the gay community um became accepted by you know by people in the 60s the um the lesbian Community the U you know it was it it was you know a time of embracing people embracing embracing Society embracing each other um and I like to think that's rubbed off in me and um and um one of the sex pistle songs was" - **Watch at 0:29**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFpk4OaSG24&t=29s) ## How to Pronounce "lesb" - **Syllables**: lesb - **IPA**: `/lɛsb/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [lesbic](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lesbic) ## Related Pronunciations [lea](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lea), [lead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lead), [leaf](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/leaf), [leag](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/leag), [leak](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/leak), [leal](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/leal), [leam](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/leam), [lean](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/lean) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “lesb”? “lesb” is pronounced /lɛsb/ (lesb). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “lesb” mean? Abbreviation of lesbian. ### How can I hear “lesb” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “lesb” with synchronized subtitles. 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