How To Pronounce Excellent

In British English, excellent is pronounced /ˈek.sə.lənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈek.sə.lə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈek.sə.lənt/.

Excellent 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.