How To Pronounce Mad

In British English, mad is pronounced /mæd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [mæd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /mæd/.

Mad 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.