75 Tongue Twisters in English
Give a nice workout to your tongue and improve your speaking skills with the belowprovided tongue twisters. Practising tongue twisters help in improving pronunciation and
speaking skills. Practising the tongue twisters is not only helpful but is also a fun exercise.
Funny Tongue Twisters
Check the following list of funny tongue twisters to practise. You can practise these tongue
twisters on a daily basis to improve your pronunciation.
1. Sheena leads, Sheila needs.
2. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
3. Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
4. Selfish shellfish. (Repeat many times)
5. No need to light a night-light on a light night like tonight.
6. Thirty-three thousand feathers on a thrushes throat.
7. The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes.
8. Linda-Lou Lambert loves lemon lollipop lip gloss.
9. Near a ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.
10. Roberta ran rings around the Roman ruins.
11. He threw three free throws.
12. A happy hippo hopped and hiccupped.
13. Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat. (Repeat many times)
14. A synonym for cinnamon is a cinnamon synonym.
15. One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two
won one too.
Hard Tongue Twisters for Adults
Check out the below-provided tongue twisters which all adults can try out.
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Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
Fresh French fried fly fritters.
Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
The 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
You know New York, you need New York, you know you need unique New York
Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
The sixth sick sheikh’s sixth sheep’s sick.
10. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk
stunk.
11. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
12. Wayne went to wales to watch walruses
13. Seventy-seven benevolent elephants
14. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
15. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids
The following funny tongue twisters can help kids improve their pronunciation and speaking
skills.
1. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
2. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
3. Red lorry, yellow lorry.
4. Zebras zig and zebras zag.
5. A big black bug bit a big black bear.
6. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
7. An ape hates grape cakes.
8. Billybob blabbered boldly.
9. How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
10. Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
11. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
12. Red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry.
13. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
14. He threw three balls.
15. A shapeless sash sags slowly.
Easy Tongue Twisters
It is better to start with the easier ones and then move on to the harder ones. Go through the
easy tongue twisters given below.
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Six Czech cricket critics.
Green glass globes glow greenly.
A proper copper coffee pot.
She sees cheese.
Six sticky skeletons.
Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
Tie twine to three tree twigs.
8. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
9. Six sticky skeletons.
10. Eddie edited it
11. Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle
12. Snap crackle pop.
13. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
14. Cooks cook cupcakes quickly.
15. Kitty caught the kitten in the kitchen.
Tongue Twister Sentences
1. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the
bitter butter better.
2. “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia
some strokes so she shall not sink.”
3. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and
bludgeons—balancing them badly.
4. She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably
welcoming him in.
5. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she
shines.
6. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross
coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
7. I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I thought.
If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I wouldn’t have
thought I thought.
8. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practised and
practically perfect.
Popular Tongue Twisters in English
Listed below are some of the popular tongue twisters in English for both kids and adults.
1. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup
2. She sells seashells by the seashore.
3. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter
Piper pick?
4. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
5. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy,
was he?
6. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
7. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? He
would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as a
woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.