How To Pronounce Gift

In British English, gift is pronounced /ɡɪft/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ɡɪft̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ɡɪft/.

Gift 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.