How To Pronounce Medium

In British English, medium is pronounced /ˈmiː.di.əm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈmiː.di.ə̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈmiː.di.əm/.

Medium 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.