How To Pronounce Twain

In British English, Twain is pronounced /tweɪn/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tʷw̥e͠ɪn]. In American English, it is pronounced /tweɪn/.

Twain 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.