How To Pronounce Elizabeth

In British English, Elizabeth is pronounced /ɪˈlɪz.ə.bəθ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪˈlɪz.ə.bəθ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪˈlɪz.ə.bəθ/.

Elizabeth has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.