How To Pronounce Cooperation

In British English, cooperation is pronounced /kəʊˌɒp.əˈreɪ.ʃən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kəʊˌɒp.əˈreɪ.ʃn̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /koʊˌɑː.pəˈreɪ.ʃən/.

Cooperation has five syllables, and the main stress falls on the fourth 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.