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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 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.