How To Pronounce Opinion

In British English, opinion is pronounced /əˈpɪn.jən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [əˈpʰɪ̃n.jə̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /əˈpɪn.jən/.

Opinion 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.