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say it: VAHY-king
viking is a noun meaning "any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries". It is pronounced /ˈvaɪkɪŋ/ — VAHY-king. It carries one recorded sense.
any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
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 viking 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.