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say it: BAY-kuhn
bacon is a noun meaning "back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried". It is pronounced /ˈbeɪkən/ — BAY-kuhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried
English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)
English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)
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 bacon 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.