How To Pronounce Appointment

In British English, appointment is pronounced /əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈpʰʷɔɪ̃nt.mə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈpɔɪnt.mənt/.

Appointment 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.