How To Pronounce Furniture

In British English, furniture is pronounced /ˈfɜː.nɪ.tʃə/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈfɜːʴ.nɪ.tʃəʴ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈfɜːr.nɪ.tʃər/.

Furniture has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.