How To Pronounce Stimulate

In British English, stimulate is pronounced /ˈstɪm.jʊ.leɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈstɪ̃m.jʷʊ.leɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈstɪm.jə.leɪt/.

Stimulate has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the first syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.