How To Pronounce Potent

In British English, potent is pronounced /ˈpəʊ.tənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈpʰəʊ.tə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈpoʊ.t̯ənt/.

Potent has two 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.