How To Pronounce Waist

In British English, waist is pronounced /weɪst/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [weɪst̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /weɪst/.

Waist 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.