How To Pronounce Shield

In British English, shield is pronounced /ʃiːld/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ʃiːɫd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /ʃiːld/.

Shield 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.