How To Pronounce Barb

In British English, barb is pronounced /bɑːb/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [bɑːʴb̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /bɑːrb/.

Barb 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.