coca
/ˈkəʊ.kə/
"coca" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coca” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #12,206 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,206
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coca |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkəʊ.kə/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coca” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for coca is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkəʊ.kə/. Corpus data places it at rank #12,206 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for coca, with forms such as "ccoa", "ccoca", and "coac". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cop", "con", "cow", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara. The correct English form is coca, spelled C-O-C-A.
Definition
- 1Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
- 2The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine and used as aphrodisiac in the past.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoa,ccoca,coac,cocca,occa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coca - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “coca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkəʊ.kə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “cop” - see the side-by-side comparison. coca vs cop
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.