How To Pronounce Whole

In British English, whole is pronounced /həʊl/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [həʊɫ]. In American English, it is pronounced /hoʊl/.

Whole has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.