Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

helsinki

/hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: hel-sinki
IPA: /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.

name

The Finnish government.

Example Sentences

"My doctors didn't want me to go to Helsinki, but staying home wasn't an option. Yeltsin had been reelected and NATO was about to vote to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic; we had to have an agreement on how to proceed."
"There’s a YIMBY group in Somerville, Massachusetts, and one in Los Angeles; there’s a San Francisco YIMBY party and a YIMBY group in Portland. YIMBYtown, a national conference, will take place in Oakland this month; Helsinki is hosting Yimbycon in August."
"The aim of the bill is to introduce temporary measures which curb migrants from entering the Nordic nation, in response to what Helsinki sees as “hybrid warfare” from Russia."

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Derived Forms

Helsinkian Talsinki

Synonyms

Helsingfors

Questions

How do you pronounce helsinki?: The recorded pronunciation is /hɛlˈsɪŋ.ki/.
What does helsinki mean?: The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland.
Where does helsinki come from?: Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

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