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liwan

noun

liwan is spelled L-I-W-A-N: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, liwan means “A long, narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal found in Levantine homes, often open to the outside” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of liwan is liwans.

How many letters and syllables are in liwan?

Letters5: L-I-W-A-N
In writingabout once in every 68 million words; the 258,950th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is liwan?

Liwan appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).

What rhymes with liwan?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as liwan.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: inlaw.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of liwan

  • liwans plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does liwan mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A long, narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal found in Levantine homes, often open to the outside.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does liwan come from?

Borrowed from Arabic ليوان.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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