--- title: "How to pronounce \"wellies\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"wellies\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/mJnTZn0KBa0/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wellies" --- # How to pronounce "wellies" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/ˈwɛliz/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **wel·lies** - **Stress**: **WEL** — say this syllable louder and longer - **Native Audio**: [Listen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6a/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wellies.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wellies.wav.mp3) ## Meaning & Usage ### NOUN - Wellington boots. ### Example Sentences - "wellies how how what position in the family did the prize cow hold oh it was" - "In wellies, Right then. Okay, let's meet our final contestant. Contestant number four, come" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (14 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "wellies" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: UK* > "somewhere onto some hot climate yeah so we're all like run down there in our wellies how how what position in the family did the prize cow hold oh it was probably top above no I mean my you know it was it was it was a really lovely way" - **Watch at 2:51**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJnTZn0KBa0&t=171s) ### Example 2 *Accent: UK* > "In wellies, Right then. Okay, let's meet our final contestant. Contestant number four, come" - **Watch at 8:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3BQ87CUfPU&t=528s) ### Example 3 *Accent: UK* > "Best get your wellies. We've got a body on the beach." - **Watch at 4:38**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmJM4hi9GEk&t=278s) ### Example 4 *Accent: AUS* > "small marsupials like booties and wellies. We call them like sausages, mammals, so they eat them. these truffle like fungi booties and all of these are some of the" - **Watch at 10:48**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7oClHT3e5M&t=648s) ### Example 5 *Accent: UK* > "were saying you were saying earlier about the wellies, putting the wellies on and going into the puddles. It's like you're" - **Watch at 3:34**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KRUqywA6I&t=214s) ### Example 6 > "rarely has whiteall seen such a collection of green Wellies and barber jackets though In fairness to the thousands of farmers who descended on Central London today they were at least appropriately dressed for the bitterly cold weather in fact it is Testament to the anger that is felt in the farming" - **Watch at 0:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-5HVZjGRLU&t=0s) ### Example 7 > "If you go on another day and the water is deeper, what happens then? Does it go over the top of your wellies? That kind of thing." - **Watch at 7:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjegFh1zhY4&t=431s) ### Example 8 *Accent: UK* > "boots you need your boots on today oh Wellies yeah that's fine you do um thigh highs sometimes I think scare people a bit but they're not as they" - **Watch at 0:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYQ9TW8NPk&t=10s) ### Example 9 *Accent: UK* > "After Mary Berry has agreed to pull on her wellies and dance in the mud at this year's Glastonbury, we're asking you for your bucket list. She'll be glamping," - **Watch at 0:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTltCLiJAHY&t=0s) ### Example 10 > "So I use rubber rain boot, Wellies, to illustrate this." - **Watch at 25:25**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9npcWXf4GM&t=1525s) ## How to Pronounce "wellies" - **Syllables**: wel · lies - **Stress**: WEL — say this syllable louder and longer - **IPA**: `/ˈwɛliz/` - **Listen for**: the stressed /WEL/ in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [welly](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/welly) ## Related Pronunciations [wearies](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/wearies) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “wellies”? “wellies” is pronounced /ˈwɛliz/ (wel · lies). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “wellies”? “wellies” has 2 syllables: wel · lies. ### Where is the stress in “wellies”? The primary stress in “wellies” is on “WEL”. Listen for that stressed syllable in the clips above. ### What does “wellies” mean? Wellington boots. ### How can I hear “wellies” used in real sentences? This page has 14 real-world video examples of “wellies” with synchronized subtitles. 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