How To Pronounce Crude

In British English, crude is pronounced /kruːd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kr̥ʷuːd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /kruːd/.

Crude 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.