How To Pronounce Cooperate

In British English, cooperate is pronounced /kəʊˈɒp.ə.reɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kəʊˈɒp.ə.reɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /koʊˈɑːp.ə.reɪt/.

Cooperate has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.