How To Pronounce Clothes

In British English, clothes is pronounced /kləʊðz/ or /kləʊz/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kl̥əʊðz]. In American English, it is pronounced /kloʊðz/.

Clothes 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.