How To Pronounce Transit

In British English, transit is pronounced /ˈtræn.zɪt/ or /ˈtræn.sɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtr̥æ̃n.zɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtræn.zɪt/.

Transit 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.