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say it: MYOO-tuh-nee
mutiny is a noun and verb meaning "open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)". It is pronounced /ˈmjutəni/ — MYOO-tuh-nee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
engage in a mutiny against an authority
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 mutiny 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.