How To Pronounce Salad

In British English, salad is pronounced /ˈsæl.əd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsæl.əd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsæl.əd/.

Salad 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.