How To Pronounce Pavement

In British English, pavement is pronounced /ˈpeɪv.mənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈpʰeɪv.mə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈpeɪv.mənt/.

Pavement 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.