How To Pronounce Tunnel

In British English, tunnel is pronounced /ˈtʌn.əl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈtʰʌ̃n.əɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈtʌn.əl/.

Tunnel 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.