How To Pronounce Hawk
hawk
UK
Phonemic
/hɔːk/
Phonetic
[hʷɔːk̚]
US
Phonemic
/hɔːk/
In British English, hawk is pronounced /hɔːk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [hʷɔːk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /hɔːk/.
Hawk 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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