How To Pronounce Isolate

In British English, isolate is pronounced /ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/.

Isolate has three 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.