How To Pronounce Bolt

In British English, bolt is pronounced /bəʊlt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [bəʊɫt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /boʊlt/.

Bolt has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.