How To Pronounce Illness

In British English, illness is pronounced /ˈɪl.nəs/ or /ˈɪl.nɪs/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈɪɫ.nəs]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈɪl.nəs/.

Illness 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.