How To Pronounce Catastrophe

In British English, catastrophe is pronounced /kəˈtæs.trə.fi/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kəˈtʰæs.tr̥ə.fi]. In American English, it is pronounced /kəˈtæs.trə.fi/.

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