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say it: HEL-sing-kee
helsinki is a noun meaning "the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center". It is pronounced /ˈhɛlsɪŋki/ — HEL-sing-kee. It carries one recorded sense.
the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center
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 helsinki 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.