--- title: "How to pronounce \"ricket\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"ricket\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/-eNToGK7rD0/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ricket" --- # How to pronounce "ricket" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/rɪkkɛt/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **ri·cket** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADJECTIVE - Unsteady, rickety. ### VERB - To move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner. - *Example*: "As it stands now, Earth's own structure must go ricketing down in the near future, the Outer Worlds will slowly degenerate and decay in a somewhat further future, but the new colonies will be a new and healthy strain, combining the best of both cultures." ### NOUN - A racket or disturbance. - A policeman's rattle. ### Example Sentences - "As it stands now, Earth's own structure must go ricketing down in the near future, the Outer Worlds will slowly degenerate and decay in a somewhat further future, but the new colonies will be a new and healthy strain, combining the best of both cultures." - "Rickets is a disease of childhood." - "Rickets, pellagra, scurvy, even explorers going in novel habitats during the Industrial" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "ricket" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "So there's scurvy. Everyone's favorite, rickets. Rickets is a disease of childhood. When you don't have enough vitamin D, your bones are de-mineralized, and when they're growing mineralized, just the weight of walking on them bows them out of shape." - **Watch at 22:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNToGK7rD0&t=1331s) ### Example 2 > "Rickets, pellagra, scurvy, even explorers going in novel habitats during the Industrial" - **Watch at 17:21**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK8oO-9OVds&t=1041s) ### Example 3 > "rickety light Skies so soulfully watercolored you'd have to be an Arts" - **Watch at 38:39**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O3qMmqo-48&t=2319s) ### Example 4 > "California. And this is Dorothy Ricketts, Charlotte Ricketts, DJ Ricketts, Annabelle Ricketts, Daisy Ricketts, and Rochelle Ricketts. Wow, and tell me why you're here. >> We're here to experience Wimbledon. It's the tradition queue. >> We have come from Australia, a 52-hour" - **Watch at 2:24**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UWBoq00Mdg&t=144s) ### Example 5 > "rickety antennas fuzzy pictures and crackly sound TV in the Democratic Republic of Congo isn't always great but now the country is ushering in a new era in the capital Kinshasa the analog TV" - **Watch at 0:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y98W0XDWTU&t=0s) ### Example 6 > "road but things go far from smoothly for them they have to be careful not to harm demonstrators when digging them out of the ground or removing them from their rickety wooden refuges all in all it takes 4 hours people like AA Carson and her father make sure that everything proceeds in a civilized manner after a round of police questioning the protesters are back at" - **Watch at 4:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufVTTSurQ&t=270s) ### Example 7 > "might get 200 million of course before the markets collapsed meanwhile this is going to bring another Wall Street name to the majors Tom rickets the son of Joe rickets who found an a marit TR laid led the family's Cubs purchase last year couple years before that John Malone's Liberty Media swapped at stake in Time Warner for the Braves and then there's Stu Sternberg the former Goldman Sachs partner who took over the ray in 2004 and he's hoping to give those Rays a run" - **Watch at 0:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKb1lF3gho&t=38s) ### Example 8 > "might get 200 million of course before the markets collapsed meanwhile this is going to bring another Wall Street name to the majors Tom rickets the son of Joe rickets who found an a marit TR laid led the family's Cubs purchase last year couple years before that John Malone's Liberty Media swapped at stake in Time Warner for the Braves and then there's Stu Sternberg the former Goldman Sachs partner who took over the ray in 2004 and he's hoping to give those Rays a run" - **Watch at 0:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQP429Z8DWs&t=38s) ### Example 9 *Accent: US* > "Rickett they had been going at close to top speed and the last Rush finished them at least seven of that chosen 15 would never be worth their salt again" - **Watch at 374:50**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-CFs2EHyU8&t=22490s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "rickety apartment houses that were lived in by a large number of people, with lesser means." - **Watch at 47:27**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NrHp425gbM&t=2847s) ## How to Pronounce "ricket" - **Syllables**: ri · cket - **IPA**: `/rɪkkɛt/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [rickets](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rickets), [ricketed](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ricketed), [ricketing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ricketing) ## Related Pronunciations [riblet](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/riblet), [rice](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rice), [riced](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/riced), [ricer](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ricer), [rices](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rices), [ricey](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/ricey), [riched](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/riched), [richen](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/richen) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “ricket”? “ricket” is pronounced /rɪkkɛt/ (ri · cket). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “ricket”? “ricket” has 2 syllables: ri · cket. ### What does “ricket” mean? Unsteady, rickety. ### How can I hear “ricket” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “ricket” with synchronized subtitles. 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