How To Pronounce Prime

In British English, prime is pronounced /praɪm/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pr̥aɪ̃m]. In American English, it is pronounced /praɪm/.

Prime 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.