--- title: "How to pronounce \"watchlist\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"watchlist\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/H2dpVVgxpeQ/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/watchlist" --- # How to pronounce "watchlist" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈwɔt͡ʃˌlɪst/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3d/En-us-watchlist.ogg/En-us-watchlist.ogg.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **wat·chlist** - **Parts of Speech**: noun, verb - **NOUN**: A list of people or things that are assigned to receive special attention or monitoring. - *Example*: "The police have hundreds of citizens on their watchlists." - **VERB**: To add to a watchlist. ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (13 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "watchlist" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Well, it's not a vanity project. I mean, there are good reasons in the sense that obviously we want to catch people who have wrong identities. We want to people catch people on the watchlist, and biometric information helps to do that. And there is also this huge area of overstayers. I mean, people who come legitimately and then overstay their legitimate stay, and so far with the old" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:53](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2dpVVgxpeQ&t=653s) ### Example 2 > "So basically, this would be like a new principal who was hired to improve the average grades of a school, but he doesn’t really care about the students who already have good grades. He creates a watchlist of students who have really bad grades and checks up on them every week, and he ignores the students who keep up with good grades. If any of the students on his watchlist don’t do their homework that week, they get punished." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0_raKR2UQ&t=334s) ### Example 3 > "He creates a watchlist of students who have really bad grades and checks up on them every week, and he ignores the students who keep up with good grades. If any of the students on his watchlist don’t do their homework that week, they get punished. But all of the students NOT on his watchlist can slack on their homework, and get away with it based on “what happened in the past.”" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0_raKR2UQ&t=342s) ### Example 4 > "If a country had these two features, the task force considered it at high risk of political violence and put it on a watchlist. It was actually called The Watchlist and it was sent to the White House. So here I was, sitting in a hotel conference room in suburban Virginia four times a year with a room full of really smart people." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 3:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yilgr2SJ3xQ&t=188s) ### Example 5 > "If any of the students on his watchlist don’t do their homework that week, they get punished. But all of the students NOT on his watchlist can slack on their homework, and get away with it based on “what happened in the past.” This is essentially what’s happening with PredPol, and you can be the judge if you believe it’s fair or not." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV0_raKR2UQ&t=348s) ### Example 6 > "and political violence in December of 2020, just a few weeks before the January 6 insurrection. And it likely would have put the United States on the watchlist. We also know who tends to start civil wars." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 5:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yilgr2SJ3xQ&t=315s) ### Example 7 > "and the the background of the attacker what more do we know about him because uh he is sri lankan we know certainly yeah that's what's being released and we know he's been on a watchlist for quite a while the concern that most people will have though is that although he was on a watch list he wasn't actually apprehended and the reason for this was that he had not triggered any law that would have allowed his incarceration" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 4:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6RLOeUc2Dw&t=243s) ### Example 8 > "happened in Barcelona and also to another event that happened in Alcon are and they are talking right now the Spanish police of a wider terror cell they say none of the people arrested were on what is called a terror watchlist but they're definitely linking these three different events over the last couple of days in Spain it's first time this morning we've seen those particular images this we're assuming this stage is the car that was used this" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NCDERHO5uo&t=43s) ### Example 9 > "with the Secret Intelligence and that he knows that I'm in contact with foreign media so you have to be careful or you're going to be in the watchlist and we might ban you from traveling and arrest you there are many reasons why life sucks women in Saudi Arabia" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiGlNNs4Y9U&t=69s) ### Example 10 > "news conference about the shooting what have we learned yeah we've learned as you also actually said in this piece that he has been known in the psychiatric system um he's not really known for for he's not on he wasn't any crime watchlist or terror watchlist and they seem to have ruled out terrorism completely now that it's more of a mass shooting like we've seen in the states um there's a lot of videos around" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-pImrmt-js&t=137s) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "watchlist" correctly? 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