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say it: pir-oo-EH
pirouette is a noun and verb meaning "(ballet) a rapid spin of the body (especially on the toes as in ballet)". It is pronounced /ˌpɪɹuˈɛ/ — pir-oo-EH. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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 pirouette 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.