How To Pronounce Purse

In British English, purse is pronounced /pɜːs/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [pʰɜːʴs]. In American English, it is pronounced /pɝːs/.

Purse 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.