Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

zhezkazgan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: zhezkaz-gan
IPA

45

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city, the administrative centre of the Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan.

Example Sentences

"Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory."

Etymology

From Russian Жезказга́н (Žezkazgán), from Kazakh Жезқазған (Jezqazğan).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: Жезказга́н, Жезқазған

Questions

What does zhezkazgan mean?: A city, the administrative centre of the Ulytau Region, Kazakhstan.
Where does zhezkazgan come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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