How To Pronounce Pacific

In British English, Pacific is pronounced /pəˈsɪf.ɪk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pəˈsɪf.ɪk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /pəˈsɪf.ɪk/.

Pacific 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.