Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

stolichnaya

/stˌoʊlɪknˈaɪə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: stolich-naya
IPA: /stˌoʊlɪknˈaɪə/

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A brand of vodka made of wheat and rye grain.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"When Ewan McGregor was but a wee lad in a sleepy town in Scotland in the ’70s, some 3,200 miles away in a Manhattan townhouse on East 63rd Street, Roy Halston Frowick was living on a diet of baked potatoes with beluga caviar, chilled Stolichnaya, rent boys and mounds of cocaine piled in Elsa Peretti silver ashtrays."

Etymology

A brand name, from Russian Столи́чная (Stolíčnaja).

Origin

Source language: Russian

Word Breakdown

Root: Столи́чная

Usage

Inflected Forms

Stolichnayas (plural)

Synonyms

Stoli Stolly

Rhymes With

via maya messiah jeremiah mariah playa josiah gaia maia papaya jaya aja

Questions

How do you pronounce stolichnaya?: The recorded pronunciation is /stˌoʊlɪknˈaɪə/.
What does stolichnaya mean?: A brand of vodka made of wheat and rye grain.
Where does stolichnaya come from?: It is traced to Russian.

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