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say it: AY-kuhn
aken is a noun meaning "a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital". It is pronounced /ˈeɪkən/ — AY-kuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aken come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.