How To Pronounce Blindness

In British English, blindness is pronounced /ˈblaɪnd.nəs/ or /ˈblaɪnd.nɪs/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈblaɪ̃nd.nəs]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈblaɪnd.nəs/.

Blindness 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.