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say it: MAY-day
mayday is a noun meaning "an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)". It is pronounced /ˈmeɪdeɪ/ — MAY-day. It carries one recorded sense.
an internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone (from the French m'aider)
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 mayday 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.