How To Pronounce Balcony

In British English, balcony is pronounced /ˈbæl.kə.ni/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈbæɫ.kə.ni]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈbæl.kə.ni/.

Balcony 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.