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say it: PAHY-lahn
pylon is a noun meaning "a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race". It is pronounced /ˈpaɪˌlɑn/ — PAHY-lahn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
a large vertical steel tower supporting high-tension power lines
“power pylons are a favorite target for terrorists”
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 pylon 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.