How To Pronounce King

In British English, king is pronounced /kɪŋ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʰɪ̃ŋ]. In American English, it is pronounced /kɪŋ/.

King 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.