How To Pronounce Coconut

In British English, coconut is pronounced /ˈkəʊ.kə.nʌt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkʰəʊ.kə.nʌt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkoʊ.kə.nʌt/.

Coconut 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.