How To Pronounce Occasion

In British English, occasion is pronounced /əˈkeɪ.ʒən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈkʰeɪ.ʒn̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈkeɪ.ʒən/.

Occasion has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.