How To Pronounce Senate

In British English, senate is pronounced /ˈsen.ət/ or /ˈsen.ɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsẽn.ət̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsen.ət/.

Senate 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.