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say it: TAM-pahn
tampon is a noun and verb meaning "plug of cotton or other absorbent material; inserted into wound or body cavity to absorb exuded fluids (especially blood)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
plug with a tampon
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 tampon 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.