How To Pronounce Effort

In British English, effort is pronounced /ˈef.ət/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈef.əʴt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈef.ərt/.

Effort has two 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.