How To Pronounce Immediate

In British English, immediate is pronounced /ɪˈmiː.di.ət/ or /ɪˈmiː.di.ɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪˈmiː.di.ət̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪˈmiː.di.ət/.

Immediate has four syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.