How To Pronounce Rhetoric

In British English, rhetoric is pronounced /ˈret.ər.ɪk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈret.ər.ɪk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈret.ər.ɪk/.

Rhetoric has three 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.