How To Pronounce Cheap
cheap
UK
Phonemic
/tʃiːp/
Phonetic
[tʃiːp̚]
US
Phonemic
/tʃiːp/
In British English, cheap is pronounced /tʃiːp/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tʃiːp̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /tʃiːp/.
Cheap 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.
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