How do you pronounce 래?

래 is romanized rae and read exactly as written.

래

래 — rae

래 is ㄹ plus ㅐ, romanized rae and read exactly as written. You can hear it below, recorded by a native Korean speaker.

Frequency: common — it appears at or above the median frequency in the teaching material behind this site. The boundary is the median of the cells that appear at all, which works out at 21 occurrences.

How this block is put together

ㄹ + ㅐ — the vowel stands to the right of the consonant.

The two letters

ㄹ (rieul)

/ɾ/ before a vowel, [l] in final position

the tapped r of Spanish pero when a vowel follows; an l at the end of a syllable

ㅐ

/ɛ/

the e in bed — more open than ㅔ

Words containing 래

미래future
빨래laundry
오래long time
그래서so

Nearby in the chart

Same consonant (ㄹ)

Same vowel (ㅐ)

Questions people ask

How do you pronounce 래?: 래 is romanized rae and read exactly as written.