How To Pronounce Crucial

In British English, crucial is pronounced /ˈkruː.ʃəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈkr̥ʷuː.ʃl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈkruː.ʃəl/.

Crucial 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.