How To Pronounce West

In British English, west is pronounced /west/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [west̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /west/.

West 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.