How To Pronounce Lieu

In British English, lieu is pronounced /ljuː/ or /luː/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [ljʷuː]. In American English, it is pronounced /luː/.

Lieu has one syllable. The British and American pronunciations are different, so listen to both.

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.