How To Pronounce Bumper

In British English, bumper is pronounced /ˈbʌm.pə/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈbʌ̃m.pə]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈbʌm.pər/.

Bumper has two 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.