How To Pronounce Shell

In British English, shell is pronounced /ʃel/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃeɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃel/.

Shell 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.