taipan

Questions about taipan

What does taipan mean?

taipan means "large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia".

How many syllables are in taipan?

taipan has 2 syllables and divides as tai-pan 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 taipan?

Close synonyms include Oxyuranus scutellatus. 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 taipan a common word?

taipan 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.