How To Pronounce Occupy

In British English, occupy is pronounced /ˈɒk.jʊ.paɪ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈɒk.jʷʊ.paɪ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈɑːk.jə.paɪ/.

Occupy has three 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.