How To Pronounce Breakfast

In British English, breakfast is pronounced /ˈbrek.fəst/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈbrek.fəst̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈbrek.fəst/.

Breakfast 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.