English homophones
coco/cocoa
"cocoa" (#12,207 written frequency) beats "coco" (#15,131) in this 2-word /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ cluster. Size rank #133 of 1,007 English groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "cocoa" leads at #12,207, with "coco" trailing at #15,131.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "coco" then splits - "coco" (4 letters) vs "cocoa" (5).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across coco, cocoa: co. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
coco
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CVCV
Inventory co · no private letters vs siblings
cocoa
5 letters · 3 vowels · shape CVCVV
Inventory aco · private a
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "coco" when you mean: Coconut palm.
- Write "cocoa" when you mean: The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
Each spelling
Nearby English homophone groups
What to do next
You've reviewed the 2-spelling cluster (coco, cocoa). Here's where to go from here.
- "cocoa" is the most frequent headword in this 2-spelling cluster (rank #12,207 in English). Full entry
- Among English homophone groups, a cluster of 2 spellings ranks #133 by size (1,007 groups in this vintage). Corpus statistics
- Explore a nearby 2-spelling cluster: council · counsel. Nearby cluster
- Each spelling in "coco, cocoa" has its own headword page with definition, IPA, and misspelling variants. First entry
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