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say it: wik
wick is a noun meaning "any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any piece of cord that conveys liquid by capillary action
“the physician put a wick in the wound to drain it”
a loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
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 wick 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.