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say it: nel
knell is a verb and noun meaning "ring as in announcing death". It is pronounced /ˈnɛl/ — nel. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
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 knell 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.