How To Pronounce Citizen

In British English, citizen is pronounced /ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsɪt.ɪ.zn̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsɪt.ɪ.zən/.

Citizen has three 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.