How To Pronounce Concentrate

In British English, concentrate is pronounced /ˈkɒn.sən.treɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkʰʷɒ̃n.sə̃n.tr̥eɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkɑːn.sən.treɪt/.

Concentrate 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.