How To Pronounce Duck

In British English, duck is pronounced /dʌk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [dʌk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /dʌk/.

Duck 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.