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alocasia

noun

alocasia is spelled A-L-O-C-A-S-I-A: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, alocasia means “Any of several tropical Asian plants, of the genus Alocasia, having heart- or arrowhead-shaped leaves” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of alocasia is alocasias.

How many letters and syllables are in alocasia?

Letters8: A-L-O-C-A-S-I-A
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is alocasia?

Alocasia appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of alocasia

  • alocasias plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does alocasia mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of several tropical Asian plants, of the genus Alocasia, having heart- or arrowhead-shaped leaves.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Alocasia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense any of several tropical Asian plants of the genus Alocasia:

LanguageWords
Frenchalocasia
Portuguesealocásia, alocasia

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does alocasia come from?

From the genus name taxonomic name Alocasia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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