How To Pronounce Cope

In British English, cope is pronounced /kəʊp/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʰəʊp̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /koʊp/.

Cope 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.