How To Pronounce Pause

In British English, pause is pronounced /pɔːz/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pʰʷɔːz]. In American English, it is pronounced /pɔːz/.

Pause 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.