How To Pronounce Political

In British English, political is pronounced /pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /pəˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/.

Political has four 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.