How To Pronounce Celebrate

In British English, celebrate is pronounced /ˈsel.ɪ.breɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsel.ɪ.breɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsel.ə.breɪt/.

Celebrate has three 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.