How To Pronounce Queer

In British English, queer is pronounced /kwɪə/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kʷw̥ɪəʴ]. In American English, it is pronounced /kwɪr/.

Queer 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.