How To Pronounce Suspicious

In British English, suspicious is pronounced /səˈspɪʃ.əs/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [səˈspɪʃ.əs]. In American English, it is pronounced /səˈspɪʃ.əs/.

Suspicious has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.