lauan
/ˈlu(w)ɑn/noun
lauan is a noun meaning “Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-U-A-N, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lauan is lauans.
What does lauan mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several types of light wood, resembling mahogany, from various trees from the Philippines and Malaysia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lauan?
- US /ˈlu(w)ɑn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lauan.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lauan
- lauans plural
- lawaan
- luan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lauan?
Lauan appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lauan come from?
Borrowed from Tagalog lawaan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).