How To Pronounce Basketball

In British English, basketball is pronounced /ˈbɑː.skɪt.bɔːl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈbɑː.skɪt.bʷɔːɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈbæs.kɪt.bɔːl/.

Basketball has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.