How To Pronounce Basement

In British English, basement is pronounced /ˈbeɪs.mənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈbeɪs.mə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈbeɪs.mənt/.

Basement 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.