How To Pronounce Childhood

In British English, childhood is pronounced /ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtʃaɪɫd.hʷʊd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/.

Childhood 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.