How To Pronounce Balance

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

Balance has two 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.