The word "Mcateer" is a proper noun that is pronounced as /mə'keɪtər/, which consists of six phonemes. The first phoneme /m/ is a voiced bilabial nasal sound, while the second phoneme /ə/ is a neutral vowel sound. The third phoneme /k/ is a voiceless velar stop, pronounced by closing the back of the tongue against the soft palate. The fourth phoneme /eɪ/ is a diphthong of two vowel sounds /e/ and /ɪ/. The final two sounds /t/ and /ər/ are a voiceless alveolar stop and a rhotic vowel respectively.