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say it: HAM-uh-lin
hamelin is a noun meaning "a town in northern Germany (near Hanover) that is famous as the setting for the legend of the Pied Piper". It is pronounced /ˈhæməlɪn/ — HAM-uh-lin. It carries one recorded sense.
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 hamelin 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.