How To Pronounce Academic

In British English, academic is pronounced /ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˌæk.əˈdẽm.ɪk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˌæk.əˈdem.ɪk/.

Academic has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the third syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.