How To Pronounce Wide

In British English, wide is pronounced /waɪd/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [waɪd̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /waɪd/.

Wide 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.