How To Pronounce Finance

In British English, finance is pronounced /ˈfaɪ.næns/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈfaɪ.næ̃ns]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈfaɪ.næns/.

Finance 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.