How To Pronounce Strategy

In British English, strategy is pronounced /ˈstræt.ə.dʒi/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈstr̥æt.ə.dʒi]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈstræt.ə.dʒi/.

Strategy 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.