How To Pronounce Accident

In British English, accident is pronounced /ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈæk.sɪ.də̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈæk.sɪ.dənt/.

Accident has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first 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.