How To Pronounce Roundabout

In British English, roundabout is pronounced /ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈraʊ̃nd.ə.baʊt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈraʊnd.ə.baʊt/.

Roundabout 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.