How To Pronounce Stadium

In British English, stadium is pronounced /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsteɪ.di.ə̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/.

Stadium 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.