How To Pronounce Sacred

In British English, sacred is pronounced /ˈseɪ.krɪd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈseɪ.kr̥ɪd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈseɪ.krɪd/.

Sacred 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.