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say it: IR-ee
erie is a noun meaning "a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York". It is pronounced /ˈɪɹi/ — IR-ee. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York
the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal
a port city on Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania
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 erie 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.