A Global Survey Determined That These Are The 50 Sexiest Accents In The World And NYC Actually Made The List

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It never ceases to amaze me that we can speak the same English language here in Florida as someone in rural Louisiana, the Australian Outback, or Northern England and there’s a solid chance that none of us could understand each other despite speaking the exact same words.

It’s not exactly clear how we come to love certain accents but it’s definitely established that some are better than others. You won’t really find anyone on this planet that will tell you a Minnesota accent is better/sexier than an Irish, Italian, Dutch, or French accent.

It takes a lot of traveling and meeting people across the world before you realize that there are accents you truly love. For instance, I could legitimately listen to people from The Netherlands or Chile read the phonebook. And I much prefer the Brazilian dialects of Portuguese to people in Portugal actually speaking their eponymous language.

But all of this is anecdotal and I’m just listing my personal preferences. The website BigSevenTravel ran a global survey to determine what the sexiest accents in the world are and what they found is pretty intriguing. The highest-ranked American accent on the list is ‘South USA’ coming in at #9, sandwiched between Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese (I’m not alone!). The ‘NYC’ accent also cracked the top 50 and was ranked as the 44th sexiest accent in the world.

Here’s what the top 25 looks like:

25. Vietnamese
24. Mexican
23. Turkish
22. Arabic
21. Filipino
20. Zimbabwean
19. Argentine
18. Mancunian (Manchester, U.K.)
17. Jamaican
16. Danish
15. Ukrainian
14. Hungarian
13. Canadian
12. Queen’s English
11. Czech
10. Brazilian Portuguese
9. South—USA
8. Spanish
7. French
6. Scottish
5. Australian
4. Italian
3. Irish
2. South African
1. New Zealand (Kiwi)

Here’s the description of why New Zealand/Kiwi landed in the #1 spot as the sexiest accent in the world:

“To a novice ear, the New Zealand accent might sound just like the Australian accent, but Big 7 Travel readers disagree. The ‘Newzild’ dialect is outrageously charming. The sexiest accent in the world? It’s official.”

South African was ranked so high mostly because of the ‘unique tones’ and Irish was at #3 because people worldwide just seem to universally love the Irish.

‘To each, his own’, right? This is a global survey so the results will almost definitely differ from your preferences. For instance, the Vietnamese accent isn’t what I’d classify as pleasing to my ear whereas Dutch is ranked 31st on the list and Swiss is 35th, two accents I vastly prefer.

You can click here to check out the full top 50 list over on BigSevenTravel along with explanations of each accent and why they were determined to be ‘sexy’ in the survey.

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Cass Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of BroBible. Based out of Florida, he covers an array of topics including NFL, Pop Culture, Fishing News, and the Outdoors.