How To Pronounce Sympathy

In British English, sympathy is pronounced /ˈsɪm.pə.θi/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsɪ̃m.pə.θi]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsɪm.pə.θi/.

Sympathy 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.