US Trends

how to say acetaminophen

Acetaminophen is usually pronounced like this in standard American English:
uh-SEE-tuh-MIN-uh-fen.

Quick Scoop

  • Break it into 5 parts:
    uh - SEE - tuh - MIN - uh-fen.
  • Put the stress on the MIN part: “uh-see-tuh-MIN -uh-fen.”
  • It’s the same medicine that’s called paracetamol in many other countries.

A simple way to practice is to read it slowly syllable by syllable (“uh… see… tuh… min… uh-fen”) and then speed up until it sounds natural. Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.