How To Pronounce Commission

In British English, commission is pronounced /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kəˈmɪʃ.n̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /kəˈmɪʃ.ən/.

Commission has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.