szechwan

Questions about szechwan

What does szechwan mean?

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

How many syllables are in szechwan?

szechwan has 2 syllables and divides as szech-wan 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 szechwan?

Close synonyms include Sichuan, Szechuan, 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 szechwan a common word?

szechwan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.