How To Pronounce Twelve

In British English, twelve is pronounced /twelv/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tʷw̥eɫv]. In American English, it is pronounced /twelv/.

Twelve 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.