How To Pronounce Best

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

Best 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.