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The stressed syllable in the word 'important' is the PORT. Typically the word is pronounced im-port-ant. Using the international phonetic alphabet the word can be written, as pronounced, as /ɪmˈpɔrtnt/

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The apostrophe (') indicates that the following syllable is the stressed one.

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