How To Pronounce Cap

In British English, cap is pronounced /kæp/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʰæp̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /kæp/.

Cap 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.