How To Pronounce Employee

In British English, employee is pronounced /ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪ̃mˈpl̥ʷɔɪ.iː]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪmˈplɔɪ.iː/.

Employee has three 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.