How To Pronounce Devastate

In British English, devastate is pronounced /ˈdev.ə.steɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈdev.ə.steɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈdev.ə.steɪt/.

Devastate 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.