How To Pronounce Insurance

In British English, insurance is pronounced /ɪnˈʃɔː.rəns/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɪ̃nˈʃʷɔː.rə̃ns]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɪnˈʃʊr.əns/.

Insurance has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.