coca
co·ca/ˈkoʊ.kə/noun
coca is spelled C-O-C-A: 4 letters and 2 syllables (co·ca). It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, coca means “Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of coca is cocas.
How many letters and syllables are in coca?
| Letters | 4: C-O-C-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: co·ca |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 coca?
Coca appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 coca?
- UK /ˈkəʊ.kə/
- US /ˈkoʊ.kə/
Coca has 2 syllables, split co·ca in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-coca.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with coca?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as coca from its last stressed vowel (/oʊkə/):
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 coca
- cocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does coca mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
- 2
The 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.
- 3
A pastry typically made and consumed in the Catalan-speaking areas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Coca in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon coca):
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 coca come from?
Borrowed from Spanish coca, from Quechua kuka, perhaps from Aymara.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).