How To Pronounce Appreciate

In British English, appreciate is pronounced /əˈpriː.ʃi.eɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈpr̥iː.ʃi.eɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈpriː.ʃi.eɪt/.

Appreciate has four 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.