How To Pronounce Counsel

In British English, counsel is pronounced /ˈkaʊn.səl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkʰaʊ̃n.sl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkaʊn.səl/.

Counsel has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the first 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.