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say it: AN-ur-kee
anarchy is a noun meaning "a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)". It is pronounced /ˈænɚˌki/ — AN-ur-kee. It carries one recorded sense.
a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)
government
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 anarchy 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.