Proper Pronunciation Guide

ring

rɪŋ

Pronounce the final letters “ng” as the single nasal consonant /ŋ/,which is made by positioning the back of the tongue against the soft palate at the rear of the mouth.
Be sure not to explode even a slight /g/ or /k/ after the /ŋ/ sound.
Sustain the final /ŋ/ sound slightly when it is at the end of a sentence or when it precedes another consonant at the beginning of the next word as in the second practice sentence below.
Link the final /ŋ/ sound smoothly and quickly into a following vowel — either at the beginning of the next word as in the third practice sentence below or at the beginning of the inflectional endings -ing [ɪŋ] or -er [ɚ] as in the fourth and fifth practice sentences below — without an intervening /g/ sound.

	He gave her a ring.
	Let's ring the doorbell.
	We'll ring in the New Year on Saturday night.
	The phone is ringing.
	I turned the ringer off.
	Rrrrrrringngngngngngng! Bigger turned off his alarm clock.

As a verb, “ring” is irregular (ring, rang, rung) when it refers to sound, but it is a regular verb (ringed) when it refers to gathering in a circle and surrounding what is in the center — “The wagons ringed the camp” — i.e. encircled the camp.
If the letters “ng” are in the middle of a word rather than at the end, then the “n” alone is pronounced /ŋ/ while the letter “g” is pronounced /g/ as in finger, anger, and English.