How To Pronounce Leaf

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

Leaf 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.