How To Pronounce Evacuate

In British English, evacuate is pronounced /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪˈvæk.jʷu.eɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪˈvæk.ju.eɪt/.

Evacuate 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.