How To Pronounce Convention

In British English, convention is pronounced /kənˈven.ʃən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kə̃nˈvẽn.ʃn̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /kənˈven.ʃən/.

Convention 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.