How To Pronounce Emphasis

In British English, emphasis is pronounced /ˈem.fə.sɪs/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈẽm.fə.sɪs]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈem.fə.sɪs/.

Emphasis 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.