How To Pronounce Lost

In British English, lost is pronounced /lɒst/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [lʷɒst̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /lɔːst/.

Lost 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.