How To Pronounce Mechanism

In British English, mechanism is pronounced /ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zə̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/.

Mechanism has four 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.