How To Pronounce Unique

In British English, unique is pronounced /juˈniːk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [jʷuˈniːk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /juˈniːk/.

Unique has two syllables, and the main stress falls on the second 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.