Give These 75 Totally Twisted Tongue Twisters a Try To Test Your Tongue’s Talents
Are you ready to take on the challenge?
Ready to give your tongue a workout and see how well your tongue twister skills stack up? Put your money where your mouth is and give these 75 best tongue twisters a try.
From short tongue twisters for kids to long and hard tongue twisters for adults, this big list is guaranteed to keep you entertained and could help improve your English pronunciation. Plus, there are tons of famous and funny ones to share with friends too!
Whether you complete these on your own to challenge yourself or you have a tongue twister face-off with your family, this big list of the 75 best tongue twisters will provide you with a mouthful of fun.
Tongue Twisters
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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 lipgloss.
9. Near an 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
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16. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.
17. Any noise annoys an oyster but a noisy noise annoys an oyster more.
18. Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.
19. Which wrist watches are Swiss wrist watches?
20. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread.
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21. The 33 thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
22. Each Easter Eddie eats eighty Easter eggs.
23. Lesser leather never weathered wetter weather better.
24. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
25. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
26. Thirty-three thirsty, thundering thoroughbreds thumped Mr. Thurber on Thursday.
27. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
28 . Scissors sizzle, thistles sizzle.
29. Send toast to ten tense stout saints’ ten tall tents.
30. I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.
Funny Tongue Twisters for Kids
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31. Betty’s big bunny bobbled by the blueberry bush.
32. Four furious friends fought for the phone.
33. Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager managing an imaginary menagerie.
34. Gobbling gargoyles gobbled gobbling goblins.
35. Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
36. If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing.
37. An ape hates grape cakes.
38. I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen.
39. How many yaks could a yak pack, pack if a yak pack could pack yaks?
40. Smelly shoes and socks shock sisters.
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41. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
42. Picky people pick Peter Pan Peanut-Butter, 'tis the peanut-butter picky people pick.
43. Elizabeth has eleven elves in her elm tree.
44. Little Lillian lets lazy lizards lie along the lily pads.
45. A shapeless sash sags slowly.
Short Tongue Twisters
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46. Six Czech cricket critics.
47. Green glass globes glow greenly.
48. A proper copper coffee pot.
49. She sees cheese.
50. Red Buick, blue Buick (x3)
51. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
52. Tie twine to three tree twigs.
53. A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
54. Six sticky skeletons (x3)
55. Fresh French fried fly fritters
56. Bake big batches of bitter brown bread.
57. Snap crackle pop (x3)
58. Double bubble gum, bubbles double.
59. Flash message (x3)
60. A pessimistic pest exists amidst us.
Long Tongue Twisters
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61. Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the bitter butter better.
62. “Surely Sylvia swims!” shrieked Sammy surprised. “Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink.”
63. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades, blunderbusses, and bludgeons—balancing them badly.
64. She stood on the balcony, inexplicably mimicking him hiccuping, and amicably welcoming him in.
65. Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where she shines she sits, and where she sits she shines.
66. If you must cross a course cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully.
67. 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.
68. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
Famous Tongue Twisters for Kids & Adults
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69. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
70. She sells seashells by the seashore.
71. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
72. Pad kid poured curd pulled cod.
73. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t very fuzzy, was he?
74. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
75. 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.
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