say it: pur-SEL
purcell is a noun meaning "English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)". It carries one recorded sense.
English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
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 purcell 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.