How To Pronounce Capable

In British English, capable is pronounced /ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkʰeɪ.pə.bl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkeɪ.pə.bəl/.

Capable has three 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.