vientiane

Questions about vientiane

What does vientiane mean?

vientiane means "the capital and largest city of Laos".

How many syllables are in vientiane?

vientiane has 3 syllables and divides as vi-en-tiane 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 vientiane?

Close synonyms include Laotian capital, capital of Laos. 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 vientiane a common word?

vientiane 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.