How To Pronounce Compete

In British English, compete is pronounced /kəmˈpiːt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kə̃mˈpʰiːt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /kəmˈpiːt/.

Compete has two 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.