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say it: PUHF-in
puffin is a noun meaning "any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills". It carries one recorded sense.
any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills
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 puffin 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.