How To Pronounce Beef

In British English, beef is pronounced /biːf/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [biːf]. In American English, it is pronounced /biːf/.

Beef 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.