How To Pronounce Pumpkin

In British English, pumpkin is pronounced /ˈpʌmp.kɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈpʰʌ̃mp.kɪ̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈpʌmp.kɪn/.

Pumpkin 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.