How To Pronounce Terrible

In British English, terrible is pronounced /ˈter.ə.bəl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtʰer.ə.bl̩]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈter.ə.bəl/.

Terrible 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.