How To Pronounce Educate

In British English, educate is pronounced /ˈed.jʊ.keɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈed.jʷʊ.keɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈedʒ.ə.keɪt/.

Educate has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.