How to pronounce wrong in American English

IPA /rɔŋ/ Syllables 1 · rahng Stress 1st syllable

RAHNG

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Americans pronounce wrong as RAHNG (/rɔŋ/). You'll hear it in sentences like "Wrong and right" or "Something is wrong" — more examples below.

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r/r/

Curl or bunch your tongue without letting the tip touch the roof of your mouth. Brace the sides of your tongue against your upper back teeth, and round your lips slightly.

ah/ɑ/

Relax your lips and drop your jaw significantly. The tongue tip lightly touches behind the bottom front teeth and the back part of the tongue presses down a little to create more dark space in the back of the mouth.

ng/ŋ/

Lift the back of your tongue to the soft palate. Lower your soft palate to let air flow through your nose.

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"Everything is going wrong this evening."

EHV·ree·thuhng ihz GOH·uhng RAHNG dhihs EEV·nuhng

"I acknowledge that I was in the wrong on this occasion."

ahy uhk·NAH·luhj dhuht ahy wuhz ihn dhuh RAHNG ahn dhihs uh·KAY·zhuhn

"I didn't mean to give you the wrong keys."

ahy DIH·duhnt MEEN tuh GIHV yoo dhuh RAHNG KEEZ

"I have a feeling that something is wrong."

ahy hav uh FEE·luhng dhuht SUHM·thuhng ihz RAHNG

"I must have packed the wrong bag by accident."

ahy MUHST huhv PAKT dhuh RAHNG BAG bahy AK·suh·duhnt

"We'll investigate what went wrong."

weel ihn·VEH·stuh·gayt wuht wehnt RAHNG

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Is the American pronunciation of "wrong" different from British English?

American English uses different vowel shapes, a relaxed retroflex R, and connected-speech tricks like flap-T and glottal-stop T that British Received Pronunciation generally avoids. The respell "RAHNG" reflects the casual American form; British dictionaries typically print a citation form with crisper consonants and different vowel choices.