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say it: AHY-guhn
eigen is a noun meaning "German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)". It is pronounced /ˈaɪɡən/ — AHY-guhn. It carries one recorded sense.
German chemist who did research on high-speed chemical reactions (born in 1927)
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 eigen 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.