How To Pronounce Villain

In British English, villain is pronounced /ˈvɪl.ən/ or /ˈvɪl.ɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ˈvɪl.ə̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /ˈvɪl.ən/.

Villain 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.