Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kien

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: kien
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Etymology

Two main origins: * Borrowed from Vietnamese Kiến. * Borrowed from Dutch and German Kien, a variant of Kuhn.

Origin

Source language: Vietnamese

Word Breakdown

Root: Kiến, -, Kien

Inflected Forms

Kiens (plural)

Questions

What does kien mean?: A surname.
Where does kien come from?: It is traced to Vietnamese.

How to pronounce kien

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