How To Pronounce Chimney

In British English, chimney is pronounced /ˈtʃɪm.ni/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtʃɪ̃m.ni]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtʃɪm.ni/.

Chimney 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.