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say it: PEN-chuhnt
penchant is a noun meaning "a strong liking". It is pronounced /ˈpɛntʃənt/ — PEN-chuhnt. It carries one recorded sense.
a strong liking
“my own preference is for good literature”
“the Irish have a penchant for blarney”
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 penchant 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.