How To Pronounce Diary

In British English, diary is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ə.ri/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈdaɪ.ə.ri]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈdaɪ.ə.ri/.

Diary 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.