How To Pronounce Kate

In British English, Kate is pronounced /keɪt/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʰeɪt̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /keɪt/.

Kate 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.