How To Pronounce Accelerate

In British English, accelerate is pronounced /ækˈsel.ə.reɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ækˈsel.ə.reɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ækˈsel.ə.reɪt/.

Accelerate has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.