How To Pronounce Poise

In British English, poise is pronounced /pɔɪz/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pʰʷɔɪz]. In American English, it is pronounced /pɔɪz/.

Poise 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.