How To Pronounce Ingredient

In British English, ingredient is pronounced /ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪ̃nˈɡriː.di.ə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪnˈɡriː.di.ənt/.

Ingredient 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.