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cacao

ca·caoUK /kəˈkaʊ/noun

cacao is spelled C-A-C-A-O: 5 letters and 2 syllables (ca·cao). It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cacao means “A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cacao is cacaos.

How many letters and syllables are in cacao?

Letters5: C-A-C-A-O
Syllables2: ca·cao
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 34,504th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cacao?

Cacao appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,504th 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).

How do you pronounce cacao?

  • UK /kəˈkaʊ/
  • UK /kəˈkɑː.əʊ/
  • UK /kəˈkeɪ.əʊ/

Cacao has 2 syllables, split ca·cao in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cacao.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cacao?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cacao from its last stressed vowel (/aʊ/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of cacao

  • cacaos plural

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

What does cacao mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.

  2. 2

    The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.

  3. 3

    rareCocoa (hot drink).

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

Cacao in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcacaoyer (Theobroma cacao tree), fève de cacao (Theobroma cacao seed – see also cocoa bean)
GermanKakaobaum (Theobroma cacao tree), Kakao (Theobroma cacao seed – see also cocoa bean)
Portuguesecacaueiro (Theobroma cacao tree), cacau (Theobroma cacao seed – see also cocoa bean)
Spanishcacao, cacaotero (Theobroma cacao tree)

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 cacao come from?

From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.

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

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