How To Pronounce Put

In British English, put is pronounced /pʊt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pʰʷʊt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /pʊt/.

Put 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.