How To Pronounce Compassion

In British English, compassion is pronounced /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kə̃mˈpʰæʃ.n̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/.

Compassion 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.