How To Pronounce Tragedy

In British English, tragedy is pronounced /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtr̥ædʒ.ə.di]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtrædʒ.ə.di/.

Tragedy 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.