How To Pronounce Gruff

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

Gruff 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.