How To Pronounce Chef

In British English, chef is pronounced /ʃef/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃef]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃef/.

Chef 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.