How To Pronounce Traffic

In British English, traffic is pronounced /ˈtræf.ɪk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtr̥æf.ɪk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtræf.ɪk/.

Traffic 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.