How To Pronounce Build

In British English, build is pronounced /bɪld/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [bɪɫd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /bɪld/.

Build has one 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.