How To Pronounce Symptom

In British English, symptom is pronounced /ˈsɪmp.təm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈsɪ̃mp.tə̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈsɪmp.təm/.

Symptom has two 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.