How To Pronounce Recipient

In British English, recipient is pronounced /rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [rɪˈsɪp.i.ə̃nt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /rɪˈsɪp.i.ənt/.

Recipient 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.