How To Pronounce Adolescent

In British English, adolescent is pronounced /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˌæd.əˈles.ə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˌæd.əˈles.ənt/.

Adolescent 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.