How To Pronounce Tyre

In British English, tyre is pronounced /taɪə/ or /ˈtaɪ.ə/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tʰaɪəʴ]. In American English, it is pronounced /taɪr/.

Tyre 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.