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say it: ser-uhn-DIP-i-tee
serendipity is a noun meaning "good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries". It is pronounced /ˌsɛɹənˈdɪpɪti/ — ser-uhn-DIP-i-tee. It carries one recorded sense.
good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
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 serendipity 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.