How To Pronounce Alliance

In British English, alliance is pronounced /əˈlaɪ.əns/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈlaɪ.ə̃ns]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈlaɪ.əns/.

Alliance has three 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.