How To Pronounce Agony

In British English, agony is pronounced /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈæɡ.ə.ni]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈæɡ.ə.ni/.

Agony 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.