# coca vs coli

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### coca
*noun · IPA /ˈkəʊ.kə/ · frequency rank #12,206*
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

### coli
*noun · IPA /ˈkoʊ.laɪ/ · frequency rank #20,590*
Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coca-vs-coli
