How To Pronounce Bureaucracy

In British English, bureaucracy is pronounced /bjʊəˈrɒk.rə.si/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [bjʷʊəˈrʷɒk.rə.si]. In American English, it is pronounced /bjʊˈrɑːk.rə.si/.

Bureaucracy has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.