How To Pronounce Veteran

In British English, veteran is pronounced /ˈvet.ər.ən/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈvet.ər.ə̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈvet.ər.ən/.

Veteran 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.