How To Pronounce Supervise

In British English, supervise is pronounced /ˈsuː.pə.vaɪz/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsʷuː.pə.vaɪz]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsuː.pər.vaɪz/.

Supervise 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.