How To Pronounce Dedicate

In British English, dedicate is pronounced /ˈded.ɪ.keɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈded.ɪ.keɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈded.ɪ.keɪt/.

Dedicate has three 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.