How To Pronounce Secret

In British English, secret is pronounced /ˈsiː.krɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsiː.kr̥ɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsiː.krɪt/.

Secret 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.