How To Pronounce Company

In British English, company is pronounced /ˈkʌm.pə.ni/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkʰʌ̃m.pə.ni]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkʌm.pə.ni/.

Company 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.