How To Pronounce Main

In British English, main is pronounced /meɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [meɪ̃n]. In American English, it is pronounced /meɪn/.

Main 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.