How To Pronounce Eighth

In British English, eighth is pronounced /eɪtθ/ or /eɪθ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [eɪt̪θ]. In American English, it is pronounced /eɪtθ/.

Eighth 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.