How To Pronounce East
east
UK
Phonemic
/iːst/
Phonetic
[iːst̚]
US
Phonemic
/iːst/
In British English, east is pronounced /iːst/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [iːst̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /iːst/.
East 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.
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