How To Pronounce Needle

In British English, needle is pronounced /ˈniː.dəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈniː.dl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈniː.dəl/.

Needle has two 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.