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say it: MI-stur-ee
mystery is a noun meaning "something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained". It is pronounced /ˈmɪstɚi/ — MI-stur-ee. It carries 2 recorded senses.
something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
“how it got out is a mystery”
“it remains one of nature's secrets”
a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
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 mystery 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.