How To Pronounce Lawn
lawn
UK
Phonemic
/lɔːn/
Phonetic
[lʷɔ̃ːn]
US
Phonemic
/lɔːn/
In British English, lawn is pronounced /lɔːn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [lʷɔ̃ːn]. In American English, it is pronounced /lɔːn/.
Lawn 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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