How To Pronounce Theft

In British English, theft is pronounced /θeft/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [θeft̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /θeft/.

Theft 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.