How To Pronounce Decade

In British English, decade is pronounced /ˈdek.eɪd/ or /dɪˈkeɪd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈdek.eɪd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈdek.eɪd/.

Decade 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.