szechuan

Questions about szechuan

What does szechuan mean?

szechuan means "a populous province of south central China".

How many syllables are in szechuan?

szechuan has 3 syllables and divides as sze-chu-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for szechuan?

Close synonyms include Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechwan province. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is szechuan a common word?

szechuan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.