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say it: MISH-i-guhn
michigan is a noun meaning "a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region". It is pronounced /ˈmɪʃɪɡən/ — MISH-i-guhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
the 3rd largest of the Great Lakes; the largest freshwater lake entirely within the United States borders
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
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 michigan 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.