How To Pronounce Chicken

In British English, chicken is pronounced /ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtʃɪk.ɪ̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtʃɪk.ɪn/.

Chicken has two 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.