How To Pronounce Affect

In British English, affect is pronounced /əˈfekt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈfekt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈfekt/.

Affect has two 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.