How To Pronounce Livestock

In British English, livestock is pronounced /ˈlaɪv.stɒk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈlaɪv.stʷɒk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈlaɪv.stɑːk/.

Livestock has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the first 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.