How To Pronounce Evil

In British English, evil is pronounced /ˈiː.vəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈiː.vl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈiː.vəl/.

Evil has two 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.