--- title: "How to pronounce \"rooke\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"rooke\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/MdPQIeK9K6o/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rooke" --- # How to pronounce "rooke" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/rjʌːːk/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **rooke** ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Obsolete spelling of rook. ### Example Sentences - "rookery of ceos they volleyed talking points on tax reform immigration in the economy and honestly they seem like they actually agree about a lot of things so" - "It is a rookery. And you--until you go there and actually see it, you won't quite know what a rookery can be like. But it's noisy and there's feathers all over " ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (15 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "rooke" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "the president had other friends to make today he entertained a group of business leaders i believe the appropriate collective noun to use would be a rookery of ceos they volleyed talking points on tax reform immigration in the economy and honestly they seem like they actually agree about a lot of things so mark given the overlap between the corporate community and the white house can't help but wonder why big business isn't doing more more vocally to help" - **Watch at 0:04**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdPQIeK9K6o&t=4s) ### Example 2 > "It is a rookery. And you--until you go there and actually see it, you won't quite know what a rookery can be like. But it's noisy and there's feathers all over the place, and" - **Watch at 29:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5o0d7SSJ-Q&t=1788s) ### Example 3 > "It is a rookery. And you--until you go there and actually see it, you won't quite know what a rookery can be like. But it's noisy and there's feathers all over the place, and" - **Watch at 32:16**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzysApupTcY&t=1936s) ### Example 4 > "tourist people this is a shame and the the other problem is that they have rooked they're crazy people so we can't deal with the crazy people in in yeah it's dangerous situation for for for person Alazar is grateful for the safety he's found in Altona and for the kind of work experience that'll help him integrate plenty of locals are voicing their" - **Watch at 1:45**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goLGOkMQvc&t=105s) ### Example 5 *Accent: US* > "columns resembled huge rookeries while the uprights themselves presented the" - **Watch at 317:09**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2CnftqxvDk&t=19029s) ### Example 6 *Accent: UK* > "for an elephant seal Rookery um so you have to pull over" - **Watch at 14:47**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7PyAiU-pXA&t=887s) ### Example 7 > "Here is a remote island repository for bottles off the coast of Baja California. Isla San Roque is an uninhabited bird rookery off Baja's sparsely populated central coast. Notice that the bottles here have caps on them." - **Watch at 2:06**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7K-nq0xkWY&t=126s) ### Example 8 *Accent: US* > "These breeding sites are called rookeries, and they can be found at the base of icy cliffs." - **Watch at 6:05**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBuvkktZoYE&t=365s) ### Example 9 > "this and I've been asking you know friends of mine who are science fiction writers and things have you written stuff about this and I've got one example great great uh collection of books from my friend Rudy Rooker which were um uh which I have to say the um the books about uh that are very informed by a bunch of science that I've done and the thing that I really loved about them is you know you know in the in the first chapter of of the book The" - **Watch at 61:20**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-SGpEInX_c&t=3680s) ### Example 10 *Accent: US* > "meadow and Hill between them at last the woods Rose The Rookery clustered dark a" - **Watch at 587:53**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxfgh16Otys&t=35273s) ## How to Pronounce "rooke" - **Syllables**: rooke - **IPA**: `/rjʌːːk/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [rooked](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rooked), [rooking](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rooking), [rooker](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rooker) ## Related Pronunciations [roanoke](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roanoke), [roate](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roate), [roave](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roave), [robe](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/robe), [roble](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roble), [roce](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roce), [roche](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/roche), [rock](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/rock) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “rooke”? “rooke” is pronounced /rjʌːːk/ (rooke). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### What does “rooke” mean? Obsolete spelling of rook. ### How can I hear “rooke” used in real sentences? This page has 15 real-world video examples of “rooke” with synchronized subtitles. 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