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say it: PAHN-tee-ak
pontiac is a noun meaning "famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)". It is pronounced /ˈpɑntiˌæk/ — PAHN-tee-ak. It carries one recorded sense.
famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)
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 pontiac 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.